(1891). Reissues the 1899 Norman L. Munro edition. Romance. Rubbing, minor edgewear, moderate rubbing/scraping to spine edges, tanned pages, slightly darkened spine. Internally tight and clean. Fragile to begin with, these are seldom found without significant flaws, but this copy is pretty good. Scarce. View More...
A young woman who believes that three years earlier she witnessed "a slight, dark man, with luminous dark eyes, strike an injured man what appeared to be a fatal blow" comes face to face with someone whom she believes to be that same man, a situation just slightly complicated by the fact that she's in love with the man's stepson. Unease and romantic flutterings ensue. Coral boards w/black spine lettering, 256 pages. Moderately sunned spine w/a bit of edgewear, bumped spine ends, in dust jacket w/light edgewear, a bit of chipping to corners/spine ends, 1/2" tear to top of front fold, sunned ... View More...
A young woman "leaves her Scottish home to seek her fortune as a singer on the gold-paved streets of Victorian London." Red cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 188 pages. Rubbed dust jacket w/light edgewear, thin scratches. View More...
An uncommon edition of a title first published by Mills & Boon under the title 'Course of True Love.' A doctor who moves to a small town is thrilled to rejoin an old friend whose sister loathes him from the get-go. Fortunately for him, the feeling is mutual. Naturally, this being a Harlequin, romance is the inevitable result. 224 pages. Strongly cocked, a bit of corner wear, a couple of turned corners, moderate handling wear. View More...
A wealthy man's beautiful and pampered daughter has a more than passing interest in a man of whom her father disapproves, so the father enlists the aid of a sensible and tactful woman to discover the reason behind his daughter's intractibility. Gently bumped corners, impressions to front cover, some soil/foxing to top and fore-edge, ink numerals to rear pastedown, in dust jacket w/edgewear, chipping, edge tears, small pieces torn from top edge near spine, impressions, general wear. A scarce title in any format or condition. View More...
A woman who needs a fake fiance to attend her sister's wedding with her hooks up with a contractor who needs a lawyer right away, and as might be expected, both hanky and panky ensue. Inscription reads: "Norah/Enjoy the/fantasy,/Jamie Denton". Mildly cocked, moderate handling wear, small piece of gloss missing from bottom left corner of front cover (lifted when publisher's "Autographed Copy" sticker was removed). View More...
Five heart-warming tales featuring the usual amount of angst and uncertainty that resolves itself in the end when the doctors come to what passes for their senses and take up with the nurses who pretended to themselves and others that they weren't interested. All books in at least G shape, but the advice from this address is that they be read with a bit of care to ensure that they may be read again. View More...
Historical fiction. A romance set in India. Originally published in 1907. This edition contains three chapters substituted for the original final scene, the additional material thought in 1907 to make the work too long. Beige boards w/black lettering/medal illustration, 346 pages. View More...
Canadian printing. An Edwardian romance set in 1906, telling the story of a young woman whose chance for a happy future depends on her ancestry. 181 pages. Cocked, reading crease to left edge of front cover, handling wear. Internally clean and fairly tight. View More...
An 18-year-old girl who is facing a fairy-tale future, and whose mother made something of a mess of her own life, decides that she wants "time for dreaming -- a chance to explore the byways before the golden gates of happy-ever-after-land" close behind her (which means that she ends up in a castle, is attracted to a man she should steer clear of, deals with a few unusual children, and is possessed of a secret she can't tell anyone). Red cloth w/white spine lettering/design, Jenkins device blind-stamped to back cover, 172 pages + three pages of advertisements for other Jenkins titles. A scarce ... View More...
A New Brunswick-born writer (who became a nurse in Rhode Island, and lived there with her attorney husband) here presents the story of a widow who falls in love with the manager of a hotel on an island resort. Maroon cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 227 pages. Edgwear, a bit cocked, lightly soiled edges, previous owner's name/date to front free end paper, in edgeworn dust jacket w/smudging/soiling, scrapes/impressions, reinforcing tape to edges of reverse, general wear. View More...
Originally published in 1935, by Doubleday, Doran & Company. Some poor slob determined to be a playwright moves to New York, where he becomes engaged to one woman who likes his poetry, entangled with a second who is bored with her husband, and enmeshed with a third who will appear in his newly written play "-- in return for certain considerations." Red cloth w/black lettering/illustration to spine, 305 pages. Gently bumped spine ends, dusty edges, minor fore-edge abrasions, the usual Caxton tanning, in dust jacket w/sunned spine, chipping to corners/spine ends, short edge tears, edgewear all ... View More...
A nurse whose romance with a doctor ended badly (he dumped her "so cruelly, so callously") takes a job in the Swiss mountains to escape her past, but soon finds out that the doctor in question is involved in her new assignment. Angst and the wringing of hands ensue. Originally published by Mills & Boon in 1939 under the title 'Run Away From Love,' this one is, surprisingly, pretty scarce. A bit cocked, lightly sunned spine. Internally tight and clean. View More...
Historical romance featuring a knighted sailor (that would be the hero) and a landlubber (that would be the heroine) who, naturally, start off on a rocky road but eventually find themselves just plain stupid over each other. 297 pages. Moderate handling wear. Internally tight and clean. View More...
A popular skater catches the eye of the manager of a glamorous concert singer who becomes jealous of the skater's continuing popularity and her manager's increasing devotion, and "determines to break up this affection." (No mention is made of tire irons to kneecaps, but we know she's thinking about it.) Grey cloth w/red lettering/Hopkins colophon to front cover, red lettering to spine, red top edge, 256 pages. A bit cocked, moderate wear to corners/spine ends, edgewear, small bumps/scrapes to top cover edges, a bit of dampstaining to top edge, small bookseller's stamp/ink number to front past... View More...
A well-along pregnant woman returns to her home town where she captures the heart of a hunky cowboy who doesn't mind in the slightest that she's as big as an Edsel with someone else's child. 184 pages. Impressions/scratches, dampstaining to last half of book, handling wear. Internally tight. View More...
Adventure and romance "for and about people inspired by emotion, passion, and romance." The book is a Farrar & Rinehart edition, but the dust jacket is a Grosset & Dunlap issue, so one of two things is presumed: a) that when they issued this title in their line Grosset & Dunlap simply printed their own dust jackets to fit the Farrar & Rinehart-published book, or b) that a previous owner married a G&D jacket to the F&R book. My guess is a), but it's a guess and nothing more. Nonetheless, not always easily found in a jacket. Edgewear, a bit cocked, moderately soiled edges, previous owner's name... View More...
A Kentucky nurse looking for adventure and romance leaves bluegrass country for the mountains of the West in order to care for a little boy confined to a wheelchair, and soon finds herself (surprise!) falling in love with the boy's widower father, a (surprise!) handsome rancher whose attitude toward his son is bitterness and indifference. 127 pages. Rubbing, partial crease to left portion of front cover, moderate handling wear. Internally clean and fairly tight. View More...
After winning a trip to Amsterdam, a young woman falls in love with a talented artist whose behaviour troubles her, and soon thereafter she finds herself "hopelessly enmeshed in a web of heartbreak and danger." Dedicated "To my good friend Marion Wait, Kennel Club Judge and executive officer of the Animal Rescue League," this copy also bears Ross's handwritten inscription, "To Marion/For our long time/friendship/Dan/June 3/85." Uncommon signed. Red cloth w/black spine lettering, 181 pages. View More...
A romantic suspense story in which a young and beautiful girl (have you ever seen one of these things in which the beleaguered heroine is old and ugly -- cripes, middle-aged and average, even? Neither have I.) is "haunted by the distant sounds of voodoo drums deep within the plantation country of Virginia." 191 pages + three pages advertising other titles from this publisher. Largish crease to top right corner of front cover, light edgewear, some edgewear, moderate handling wear. Internally tight and clean. View More...
1st printing w/complete number sequence. A confirmed (and, understandably, happy) bachelor comes across the woman of his dreams while stopping "to help the victims of a highway pileup," but of course the woman of his dreams has had enough of his sort, so she's not much interested. Naturally, a torrid romance ensues. Uncommon signed. 256 pages. Minor spine cocking, light edgewear, uneven reading crease to left edge of front cover. View More...
Bitterly disillusioned with his life and his marriage of several years, a doctor turns to a patient and friend "whose sympathy drew him close and then closer, until that situation, too, became unbearable." Aqua cloth, 245 pages. Spine a bit cocked, edgewear, tanned edges, two floral Christmas stickers/three numerals/previous owner's name/address to front free end paper, general wear, in price-clipped and edgeworn dust jacket w/chipping to corners/spine ends/edges, edge tears, impressions/scratches. View More...
Nurse-and-doctor stuff. Previous owner's signature and small scribble on inside front cover, cocked/sunned spine, creasing to covers, small flaked area where apparent sticker removal took some finish with it, soil to front cover, small scrape to spine. View More...
One of the author's romance/vampire stories, this one bound with Cameron's "Dead Ringer" (originally published as "The Legend of Under Widden"). 378 pages. Uncommon signed. Spine mildly cocked, some edgewear, a few impressions/scratches, one bent corner tip. Internally clean and fairly tight. View More...
Shoemaker tells the story of Edward Fairfax Rochester, "one of literature's most romantic, complex, and mysterious heroes," who first drew literary breath in Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre.' Cream boards w/brown board backstrip w/gilt spine lettering, 453 pages (including acknowledgments, two-line author biography). Small circular black remainder mark to bottom edge, in dust jacket w/light edgewear, small chip to bottom corner of front fold. View More...
A romance set in Maine, taking its title from Maurice Maeterlinck ("The God of the Bees is the Future"). Among other pieces, the author [b.1872 -- d.1950] also wrote, 'Cranberry Cove Stories,' (1915), and 'An Egyptian Lotus' (which appeared in a 1924 issue of Weird Tales). Frontispiece by Mary Hamilton Frye, well-known illustrator of such works as, 'The Wonderful Adventures of Nils,' by Selma Lagerlof, and the Hamilton Wright Mabie-edited 'Myths Every Child Should Know.' Gilt-stamped green cloth, 204 pages. Tanned/foxed edges, light edgewear, two small scrapes to front cover fore-edge, bumped/... View More...
A romantic novel "laid in the enchanting background of a deer-forest in the Highlands of Scotland." Blue cloth, 208 pages, Spine cocked, two tape stains to front cover, two more to back cover, two to each of front and rear end papers, glue stain to rear pastedown, previous owner's name on front end paper, in dust jacket w/moderate general wear. View More...
On the eve of World War 2 the son of "a high Nazi official and an English mother who died when he was a child" visits England on a secret mission "to ascertain the exact temper and fortitude of the English people," but he meets "a lovely English girl," and from that moment onward his mission is pretty much a mission?-what-mission?-oh-that-mission sort of thing. 452 pages. Mildly cocked, a hint of wear to corners/spine ends, thin scratches. View More...
Aiming for service instead of money, a successful doctor decides to set up office as a general practitioner, only to find himself dealing with idle women and neurotic men, from the frivolous blonde office assistant with a fixation on him, to a boy afraid of the draft. Strongly cocked spine, 1" piece of bottom spine chipped/peeled off, wear/light chipping to top spine, reading crease, edgewear, creasing, thin chipping to 1" strip along bottom edge of front cover and first 20 pages, previous owner's pencil signature to half-title, impressions, dusty/moderately soiled edges. View More...
Originally serialised in three parts in the Pictorial Review magazine under the title, 'The Blond Woman.' A Viking woman who, almost a thousand years previous, had been abducted and carried across the Atlantic to Canada's frigid Northwest Territories, is reborn as "romance bridges the gulf of time and brings to this year of grace the living presence of the Woman Who Couldn't Die." Black cloth w/gilt lettering/decoration to front cover, gilt spine lettering, 315 pages. Mild wear to corners/spine ends, lightly stained cloth, in lightly edgeworn dust jacket w/mild chipping to corners/spine ends, ... View More...
