Richard E. Decker, 1974. Soft cover. Original green wrappers with portrait of Alfred Hitchcock on front cover, 127 pp., in-text illustrations. Some rubbing and chafing to covers, light wear to spine ends and edges, small bump to upper front cover and some light sunning to rear cover, otherwise very good..... More
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1967. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. SIGNED with inscription to title page. Soft cover. 279 pp. Covers age toned, some light damp staining. Damp stain to top edge of text block. Interior age toned. At once a first novel, a...... More
London: Greening & Co., 1914. Burleigh, Averil. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Novels from Shakespeare Series. Orig. russet cloth, gilt titles, black stamped floral vine decoration to spine and front board. 344 pp., [8], 32 pp. ads. [8] colour plates, incl. frontis. w/ tissue guard..... More
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. SIGNED by author to title page. 325 p.p. Quarter bound in black cloth with red paper boards and gilt lettering to spine. Spine ends lightly bumped and gilt lettering lightly rubbed, else fine. Dust jacket lightly bumped at spine ends..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Hardcover. 5" x 8.5" Everyman's Library No. 327. Third Everyman printing. Full red cloth. Gold ribbon marker. xx, 513 pp. Dust jacket is lightly bumped to edges, small stain to front cover, else fine. Introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche. More
London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1973. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. African Writers Series. Soft cover. 167 pp. Rubbing to covers. Some ink underlining and marginalia. Very good overall. More
Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2009. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 50th Anniversary Edition. Soft cover. 209 pp. Fine. More
Middlesex: The Echo Library, 2006. Soft cover. 8vo. Red softcover, 148pp. About fine. A rich, historical romance originally published in 1886, the narrative voices struggles faced by settlers against the unforgiving wilderness in this romance of Upper Canada and tensions with the First Nations peoples. More
Toronto: Simon & Schuster, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quarter black cloth, black paper boards. 247 pp. Dust jacket has some light bumping to edges and age toning, damp stain to head of rear cover, else fine. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is the..... More
Toronto: Simon & Schuster, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quarter black cloth, black paper boards. 247 pp. S&S remainder stamp to tail edge. Dust jacket has some light age toning, else fine. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is the first ever fully realized Ghost-Horror-Detective-Whodunit-Time-Travel-Romantic-Musical-Comedy..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter navy cloth, brown paper boards. 319 pp. Some age toning to dust jacket, else fine. Funnier than Psycho, more chilling than Jeeves Takes Charge, shorter than War and Peace, the new Dirk Gently novel is Douglas Adams' most ambitious..... More
Toronto: Stoddart, 1988. 1st Canadian Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full grey cloth. 246 pp. Spine slightly cocked, very light bump to spine head. Light age toning to interior. In fine jacket. More
London: Macmillan, 2002. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. With an introduction by Stephen Fry. Full black paper boards. xxxv, 299 pp. Fine. The Salmon of Doubt comprises ten chapters of the novel on which Douglas Adams was working at the time of his death in May 2001, along with an..... More
London: Pan Books, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full black cloth. 191 pp. Fine condition. The fourth book in the Hitch-Hiker trilogy. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1935. Gretter, J. Clemens. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. green cloth. Pictorial endpapers. v, 210 pp. [4] B&W illustrations, incl. frontis. Some light bumping and rubbing to extremities. Dust jacket is lightly edge worn, soiled to rear. More
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First Printing. Dark blue quarter-cloth over blue boards, 181pp. Signed by author on title-page. About fine in d/w. A Carl Wilcox Mystery. More
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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Soft cover. 4.5" x 6.75" December 1893 & February 1894. Riverside Literature Series No. 60 & 61. Facsimile, reduced, of "The Spectator," No. 405, Saturday, June 14, 1712. Soft cover. xii, 13-102; v, 1-3-193 pp. Covers and interiors are moderately damp stained. Staples rusted. Some..... More
New York: Hogarth Press. Hardcover. 8vo. N.d., later reprint [ca. 1946 or later?]. Full green cloth. 359 pp. [6] B&W plate illustrations, "with numerous decorations as occasion serves." Rubbing to extremities, foxing to cloth at front board. Offsetting to endpapers. Dust jacket is age toned, chipped to extremities. Dust jacket..... More
Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter maroon cloth, teal paper boards. 188 pp. Bookplate to front pastedown. Dust jacket is price clipped, spine sunned, edges bumped. Only Joan Aiken possesses the talent, style, and requisite temerity to attempt the ambitious task of writing a sequel to..... More
London & Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press. Finnemore, J. Hardcover. 18mo. N.d., [ca. 1930s?]. Full burgundy cloth. x, 637 pp. [6] duotone plates, incl. frontis. Spine sunned, some very slight rubbing to extremities. A fictionalized account of the Great Plague of 1665 and the London fire of 1666. More
London: The Folio Society, 2008. Carlon, Laura. Hardcover. 8vo. Pictorial white and green cloth, vii, 252. With [7] illustrations incl. frontis. Fine in a fine green slipcase.Folio Society. More
Montreal: Siren Song, 2013. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. White pictorial cover, iii, 196pp. INSCRIBED by author on title-page. Fine. More
Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1956. Ives, Ruth. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Half green and tan faux leather boards, blue stamped vignette. Blue ribbon marker inserted. 318 pp. Colour frontis., B&W illustration in text. Spine tilted, light rubbing to edges, light rubbing to boards. Foxing..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1915. Hardcover. 16mo. Orig. brown publisher's cloth with gilt titles and black floral stamping. 371 pp. [4] B&W plates, incl. frontis. Cloth is damp stained to head of front cover and a few spots to rear board. Spine sunned. Light soiling to edges of text..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1896. Sullivan, J.F.; Upton, Florence K. Hardcover. 16mo. SCARCE. viii, 195 p.p., [24 p.p. ads]. With 55 B&W illustrations, incl. frontis. Green cloth boards with gilt titling to spine and vignette to front cover. Rubbing to joints, spine ends, and corners. Black endpapers. Small tear..... More