Long before the evil commercial monstrosity that is Amazon launched its bid to control everything while giving back as little as possible, some commercial entities published catalogues from which consumers could order whatever their little hearts desired. This, the 2003 Wish Book issued by Sears, is a later example of one such book. 964 pages (including covers). Internally tight and clean w/reading crease to spine, split at pages 458/9 where sticker page was inserted (corresponding to reading crease, but worry not: everything's still tight and firmly attached), moderate general wear. This... View More...
186 pages + four pages of advertisements promoting other pulse-pounding literary marvels. Top right corners chipped throughout, edgewear, price sticker, creasing, general wear. View More...
The first title in the "revisioned New Brunswick Chapbook series," this copy being #71 of a limited edition of 125 hand-numbered copies. 32 pages (including a list of other titles by Bauer, biographical notes, list of titles that comprised the original New Brunswick Chapbook Series, list of the revisioned series [at the time, all one of it], and a note on the cover), + copyright page and colophon). An unread copy w/minute wear to corners. View More...
Reprints the 1825 edition, including as frontispiece a facsimile of the original title page. 133 pages, including an 11-page essay by W.O. Raymond, "Some Notes Regarding Peter Fisher, the First Historian of New Brunswick." Light soil, corner creasing, turned corner tips, some sunning to cover edges, previous owner's name to inside front cover and title page. Internally tight. View More...
A young man and his shambolic father own "a moldering bookstore in a crusty mountain town where no one seems to read anymore." When an opportunity to sell the place arises, the young man wants to do so quickly, but a group of out-of-work lumberjacks whose pet project is to save the store, a wheelchair-bound friend who sweats optimism, and "Hannah, a beautiful, brave musician" have other plans. Valuable life lessons, teenage angst, and heartfelt appreciation for books and booksellers ensue. Signed by Forman on special sheet bound in at front. Gold boards w/purple spine lettering, 266 pages ... View More...
An attendee of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School from 1936-47 details her experiences (and only a heartless troll would remain unaffected by them). Knockwood has written "Stay strong" above her signature on title page. 159 pages, illustrated. Mild edgewear, rubbing, previous owner's name to top of title page. View More...
"A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Psychology and Sociology." Thesis accepted and signed to that effect by Desmond Pacey, at the time the dean of graduate studies, and subsequently a well-known New Brunswick literary critic, poet and writer of short fiction. Red cloth w/gilt rule/lettering to spine, 47 pages (numbered on obverse, reverses blank). Moderate general wear. View More...
Merkel and MacAskill portray "by pen and camera an unforgettable picture of the proud Queen of the North Atlantic fishing fleets." Blue cloth w/silver spine lettering, 70 pages. Lightly worn corners/spine ends, title off-set from front panel to front cover, gift inscription to previous owner, moderate general wear, in edgeworn dust jacket w/chipping, tears, handling wear. View More...
One of only 300 copies. 16 numbered pages, five gorgeous silkscreen illustrations (including title page). Smudged covers, moderate wear to corners/spine ends, previous owner's signature, ink notations to poem on page 3. (Previous owner's signature is that of Dr. Walter O. Chestnut, who established a medical practice in Hartland, New Brunswick, and served the community for more than 60 years.) View More...
With some characters from previous novels, and new ones introduced here, Richards tells the story of three childhood friends who "seal their undying brotherhood with a blood bond," that in later years will see them "inextricably tied to each other in tangled, sometimes violent, and surprising ways." Brown boards w/bronze foil spine lettering, 400 pages + 1 page of acknowledgements. Spine a bit cocked, small dent to top edge of front cover, a bit of scuffing to boards, in dust jacket w/moderate wear to corners/spine ends. View More...
In 1950 a daredevil pilot sets out to circumnavigate the globe by airplane, only to disappear and never surface again. Decades later, an actress plagued by scandal, and whose own parents were killed in a plane crash, lands the role of the doomed pilot, which will lead her to solve the mystery of the disappearance. Spruce boards w/cream cloth backstrip w/bronze foil spine lettering, 593 pages (including acknowledgments). Second state dust jacket w/Read With Jenna circle to top right corner of front panel. An unread copy. View More...
Four issues of a digest chock full of adult-themed articles, pictures and an occasional fiction with no real impact on me except to point out once again how much I have missed in my miserable, useless life. Includes articles on domination, bondage, incest, s&m, swapping, water sports, lesbians, sex slaves, and a whole lot more, including letters, classified advertisements, cartoons and so on. All issues VG w/moderate handling wear. View More...
Trail provides the history of a small New Brunswick community, the people who lived there, and their many and varied activities. Of interest to those concerned with local history or New Brunswick genealogy. Contains lists of title transfers, educators and photograph credits. 217 pages (including bibliography, acknowledgements), illustrated. Thin reading crease to left edge of front cover, mild edgewear, crease to bottom left corner of back cover, previous owner's name on half-title, two lines underlined on page 47, two sections highlighted w/faint yellow lines in margins of pages 186 and 1... View More...
