Category: Fiction (hardcover)

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Paradiso

By: Alighieri, Dante (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Montreal, D. & J. Sadlier / George Routledge & Sons

Seller ID: 018545

Condition: Very Good

The third part of Dante's 'Divine Comedy' (after 'Inferno' and Purgatorio'). Routledge is printed on the spine as publisher, as well as on the title page, but a strip of paper displaying the name of Montreal publisher Sadlier is pasted over Routledge's name. Quite an uncommon edition. 318 pages (including index). Bumped/moderately worn corners/spine ends, some slant, scuffed cloth w/a couple of thin scratches, previous owner's signature/date neatly in ink to front end paper. All in all, a nice little copy.
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The Man With No Face

By: Armstrong, Margaret

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Cleveland, World Publishing Company (Tower T-268) : 1943

Seller ID: 010116

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Reissues the 1940 Random House edition. The American cousins of a rich Australian who has died and left them his fortune are scattered throughout the US, and live in ignorance of both the bequest and the anonymous killer who is tracking them because of it. Spine a bit cocked, light general wear, in dust jacket w/sunned spine, moderate spine end wear/chipping, short edge tears, some scratching.
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Who Eat Up My People (signed)

By: Beale, Will

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Portland, Falmouth Publishing House : 1949

Seller ID: 014248

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

The story of "a people, all over, slipping into dangerous history under the increasing dominance of a few." This copy signed and dated ("Will Beale/author/Calais, Me/December 1949") on front free end paper. Grey cloth w/maroon lettering, 304 pages. A bit cocked, wear to corners/spine ends, dusty/soiled edges, previous owner's name ("Lewis") across top edge of front end paper, a bit of internal soil, in edgeworn dust jacket w/chipping, edge tears, general wear. Jacket now in protective mylar sleeve.
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Edwina Alone

By: Biggar, Joan

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Bath, Firecrest/Chivers Press : 1983

Seller ID: 014009

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Riders of the Flood

By: Blackhurst, W.E.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Parsons, McClain Printing Company : 1968

Seller ID: 014417

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

The second printing of this title (the first by Vantage Press in 1954), telling the story of a playboy who, after being sent into the woods to work with a group of rough-and-ready lumbermen, learns to be a man. The book is "based on a great lumbering operation that took place in West Virginia between 1884 and 1900." Beige cloth w/brown spine lettering, 199 pages, illustrated w/7 photographs authentic to the period. Mildly cocked, foxed top edge, internally tight and clean, in lightly edgeworn dust jacket w/light rubbing, a hint of sunning to spine. Jacket in protective mylar sleeve.
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Ruby (signed)

By: Block, Francesca Lia, and Carmen Staton

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, HarperCollins / Harper Collins : 2006

Seller ID: 016585

ISBN-13: 9780060840570

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

After growing up in an abusive family, a girl "with a sixth sense that makes her at one with nature and gives her the ability to know her own destiny" escapes to Los Angeles, which she leaves in order to track down her soul mate, who is a British actor. Red boards w/maroon cloth backstrip, silver spine lettering, 209 pages. Bumped top corners/bottom spine, diagonal remainder mark to top edge, in dust jacket w/mild edgewear, bumped top corners/bottom spine, 1/8" tear to bottom of rear fold.
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Kai Lung's Golden Hours

By: Bramah, Ernest

Price: $13.50

Publisher: London, The Richards Press : 1936

Seller ID: 014360

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Originally published in 1922. Preface by Hilaire Belloc. Illustrated brown cloth w/black spine lettering, 306 pages. Strongly cocked, moderate wear to corners/spine ends, dust-soiled edges, previous owner's signature neatly to front pastedown, smoky aroma, in moderately edgeworn dust jacket w/sun-darkened spine, some chipping to corners/spine ends, soil to rear panel/front fold, 1" tear to top of front fold. Jacket now in protective mylar sleeve.
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The Stork and the Jewels

By: Bruckberger, Raymond Leopold

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers : 1951

Seller ID: 006012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A parable about a boy who makes a pet of a fledgling stork who departs each winter, returning each spring on the boy's birthday with a special gift. Translated from the French by Gerold Lauck. Illustrated green boards. Some edgewear, tanned/dusty top edge. Dust jacket w/sunned spine, moderate wear to corners/spine ends, 1" tear to top left edge of front panel.
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The Holy War Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus to Regain the Metropolis of the World. Or, The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of Mansoul.

By: Bunyan, John

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Hartford, S. Andrus and Son : 1845

Seller ID: 018323

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

An allegorical novel first published in 1682, relating the story of a perfect town that is misled by Diabolus into rebelling against the Almighty (Shaddai). Even though he has been rejected, Shaddai dispatches his son to wrest control back from Diabolus. Brown cloth w/gilt spine lettering, blind-stamped decoration/rule to covers, 252 pages, illustrated w/seven engravings (one of which is a fold-out frontispiece), explanatory/experimental/practical notes by G. Burder. Bumped/worn corners/spine ends, chipping to top spine, long vertical scratch to front cover, wrinkling to bottom portions of bot...
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From Little Acorns

By: Buten, Howard

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Brighton, Harvester Press : 1981

Seller ID: 010247

ISBN-13: 9780710803900

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Buten's first novel, re-published in 2000 as 'When I Was Five I Killed Myself,' and considered a modern classic in France. Burt, an eight-year-old boy in a mental institution, refuses to speak, but one day "begins to write with a pencil on the wall -- about why he has been committed, and what happens to him while he is there." At the time of publication, Buten was an accomplished clown who toured the United States under the name of Buffo. Black cloth w/silver spine lettering, 156 pages. Lightly dusted edges, light tanning, in dust jacket w/slightly sunned spine, impressions, thin scratches, mi...
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From Little Acorns

By: Buten, Howard

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Brighton, Harvester Press : 1981

Seller ID: 014010

ISBN-13: 9780710803900

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Buten's first novel, re-published in 2000 as "When I Was Five I Killed Myself," and considered in France to be a modern classic. Burt, an eight-year-old boy in a mental institution, refuses to speak, but one day "begins to write with a pencil on the wall--about why he has been committed, and what happens to him while he is there." At the time of publication the author was an accomplished clown who toured the United States under the name of Buffo. Black cloth w/silver spine lettering, 156 pages. Mildly cocked, Christmas sticker to top right corner of front free end paper, light tanning, in dus...
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Touched (signed)

By: Campbell, Scott

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Bantam : 1996

Seller ID: 019185

ISBN-13: 9780553099966

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

When a 12-year-old boy tells his mother that a neighbour has been inappropriately touching him, the revelation "shakes two families to their very foundations." Signed on half-title. Blue boards w/maroon cloth backstrip w/silver lettering, 313 pages + acknowledgments. Light general wear to both book and dust jacket.
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Zivot A Dilo Skladatele Foltyna (The Cheat)

By: Capek, Karel

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Praha, Statni nakladatelsstvi krasne literatury a umeni : 1964

Seller ID: 015766

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Text in Czech. An unfinished work, originally published posthumously, in 1939. Decoration in blind to black leatherette, silver spine lettering, 153 pages, white ribbon bookmark. Dusty edges, lightly worn corners, two bumps to fore-edge. Internally tight and clean.
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CLOVERNOOK, or Recollections of Our Neighbourhood in the West

By: Carey, Alice

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons

Seller ID: 009266

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

No date (circa late 1800s). A story of difficulty and suffering and self-sacrifice and inspiration from the publisher's Ruby Series. Coloured illustrations on brown cloth, 252 pages. Spine cocked, bumped/moderately worn corners/spine ends, tanned/dusty/soiled edges, smudged covers, jagged tear to bottom right corner of page 3/bottom left corner of page 4 (just barely touches last word of text in each case, thus entirely legible), general wear.
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Master of Blackoaks

By: Carter, Ashley (pseudonym of Harry Whittington)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, W.H. Allen/Howard & Wyndham : 1977

Seller ID: 016176

ISBN-13: 9780491021005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Continues the story of "the Baynard family and their plantation in the Deep South," where "underneath the surface raged strange and savage passions." Brown cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 464 pages. Moderate edgewear, 1.5"-long bump to left bottom edge of front cover, tanning, previous owner's name along top edge of front end paper, in rubbed dust jacket w/light edgewear, impressions/scratches, 1" tear to top edge of rear panel, mild dampstaining to bottom edge at spine area. Jacket in protective mylar sleeve.
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The Width of the Sea (signed)

By: Chalfoun, Michelle

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Cliff Street Books/HarperCollinsPublishers/Harper Collins : 2001

Seller ID: 011750

ISBN-13: 9780060199081

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

With the elders of a small fishing community along the Maine coast rendered useless by bitterness and booze, a younger generation must deal with restrictive fishing quotas, the loss of the fish processing plant, and a growing tourism industry which denigrates and demeans their heritage. Grey and charcoal boards, 323 pages. Bumped spine ends, in lightly edgeworn dust jacket w/light rubbing, scratches to rear panel. An unread copy.
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Crazy Heart

By: Cobb, Thomas

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row : 1987

Seller ID: 016709

ISBN-13: 9780060158033

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First printing w/complete number sequence. Cobb's first novel, telling the story of a renowned country-and-western songwriter and guitar player who "is on his last legs. His weight, his ticker, his liver -- even his pickup truck -- are all giving him trouble." Basis for the award-winning film of the same name, which was directed by Scott Cooper and starred Jeff Bridges. White cloth, grey guitar illustration to front cover, grey spine lettering, 248 pages. Light general wear, in like dust jacket.
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The New Wilderness

By: Cook, Diane

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Harper / HarperCollins / HarperCollinsPublishers / Harper Collins : 2020

Seller ID: 018547

ISBN-13: 9780062333131

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

First printing w/complete number line. A woman and her five-year-old daughter who is "slowly wasting away, consumed by the smog and pollution of the overcrowded metropolis that most of the population now calls home" join 18 other volunteers "to live in the Wilderness State, guinea pigs in an experiment to see if humans can exist in nature without destroying it." (I doubt it.) Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. Parmesan/arctic boards w/white spine lettering, 398 pages (including land acknowledgment and author's note) + brief author biography. A very nice unread copy.
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Foxlight

By: Cummins, Mary

Price: $12.50

Publisher: London & Toronto, Robert Hale Limited/Nelson Foster & Scott/General : 1980

Seller ID: 012530

ISBN-13: 9780919324428

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

From the front flap: "When Ellice Menteith arrives in Upper Canada to find her hitherto unknown relatives, she is in a poor state of health after the long voyage from Liverpool. She has been brought up in Scotland by a foster mother, Martha Bruce, and in order to save her foster sister, Nesta, from rape she attacks the man with dressmaking scissors. He is the son of the local squire and Ellice in the twilight, or foxlight, is sure that she has been seen by a tall stranger." Black cloth, 192 pages. A bit cocked, light general wear, in rubbed dust jacket w/diagonal crease to front flap.
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Sweet Constancy

By: Cunningham, Louis Arthur

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Herbert Jenkins : 1955

Seller ID: 009041

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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.
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Second Place

By: Cusk, Rachel

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Toronto, Harper Perennial / HarperCollins / HarperCollins Publishers : 2021

Seller ID: 018739

ISBN-13: 9781443458733

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Cusk's 11th book, long-listed for the 2021 Booker Prize. A woman who believes that an artist's vision "might penetrate the mystery at the centre of her life," invites him "to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family," but when he accepts the invitation, his arrival "becomes an enigma -- and disrupts the calm of her secluded household." Cusk was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, but now lives somewhere in France, wherever that is. Red boards w/silver foil spine lettering, 183 pages + brief author biography (can you believe it? -- mention is ma...
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Home is the Hunter

By: de Poncins, Gontran

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz : 1945

Seller ID: 010115

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: About Very Good

On a large country estate in France's Loire district, an old domestic who has served faithfully for 40 years watches the disintegration of the old order and the coming of the new. Translated by Haakon Chevalier. Sunning to spine, dusty edges, gently bumped corners, impressions, light general wear, in dust jacket w/sunning to spine, fading to edges, some edgewear, impressions, scuffing, moderate general wear.
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Captain Desmond, V.C.

By: Diver, Maud

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood & Sons : 1921

Seller ID: 010441

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair to Good Reading Copy

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.
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The Rendezvous and Other Stories

By: du Maurier, Daphne

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz Ltd. : 1980

Seller ID: 018672

ISBN-13: 9780575028456

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A collection of 14 stories from the woman who gave us one of the best ever written in that form, a piece that some minor-league director (ok, it was the genius known as Alfred Hitchcock) turned into a mildly unsettling (ok, it was frightening as hell) film known as The Flying Things (ok, it was The Birds). Stories included here: "No Motive," "Panic," "The Supreme Artist," "Adieu Sagesse," "Fairy Tale," "The Rendezvous," "La Sainte-Vierge," "Leading Lady," "Escort," "The Lover," "The Closing Door," "Indiscretion," "Angels and Archangels," and "Split Second." Scarlet cloth w/gilt spine lettering...
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The Queen's Necklace

By: Dumas, Alexandre

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Alexandra Publishing Company

Seller ID: 012147

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

No date. An uncommon edition of a classic of French literature. Blue cloth w/blind-stamped decoration/rule to front cover and spine, gilt lettering to same, 392 pages. A bit cocked, wear to corners/spine ends, tanned/dust-soiled edges, previous owner's first name to front free end paper, impressions to top right corner of same, tanning to cheap paper, moderate general wear.
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Geek Love

By: Dunn, Katherine

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Knopf : 1989

Seller ID: 019208

ISBN-13: 9780394569024

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dunn's third published novel, and the one that established her reputation, telling the story of a pair of carnies "who as a cost-saving measure hit upon the idea of breeding their own freak show." One of those freakish offspring, an albino hunchback dwarf, narrates the tale. The words "weird" and "wonderful" were coined to describe this one. Peacock-blue boards w/black cloth backstrip w/bronze spine lettering, 348 pages. Previous owner's name on first end paper, in price-clipped dust jacket w/mildly sunned spine (common with this title), rubbing, impressions.
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The Private Life Of Helen Of Troy

By: Erskine, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Sun Dial Press/Center Books : 1943

Seller ID: fic.00230

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

"What kind of woman was the beautiful and unfaithful Greek wife whose face launched a thousand ships and destroyed a nation?" (well, let's see--she was unfaithful, lustful and responsible for a war--hey, she's *my* kinda broad!). Water stain to front cover, light edgewear, minor cream-coloured soil mark to top of first end paper. Dust jacket w/edgewear, 1" jagged tear to bottom right spine edge, 1/2" jagged tear to top right spine edge, 1/2" tear to bottom left spine edge, chipping to spine ends, small soil marks to rear panel, light chipping to corners, water stain from front cover transferre...
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Finding Nouf (signed)

By: Ferraris, Zoe

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston & New York, Houghton-Mifflin Company : 2008

Seller ID: 019009

ISBN-13: 9780618873883

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good to Fine

When a 16-year-old Saudi Arabian girl from a prominent family goes missing, a desert guide is enlisted to help find her, but when he does she is dead, and he "takes it upon himself to find out what really happened to her." Blue cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 305 pages. Light wear to corners/spine ends, bumped top spine, light edgewear, light scuffing, in dust jacket w/a hint of wear to corners/spine ends. A fairly nice copy.
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DON CARLOS & other stories (signed)

By: FitzGerald, James Arnold

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Washington, Bond Publishing Company : 1981

Seller ID: 019193

ISBN-13: 9780939296002

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

"A collection of short stories taken from unusual occurrences in the field of medicine." Red cloth w/gilt lettering to front cover/spine, 161 pages. Mildly cocked, previous owner's pencil notation to front end paper, moderately tanned edges, in rubbed dust jacket w/a bit of edgewear, impressions.
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Fort of Silence

By: Foley, Helen

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton / H&S : 1963

Seller ID: 012032

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A long-married couple setting off for a holiday in France have separate thoughts about their life together, the wife brooding "over her long-standing and undiscovered affair with the painter, John Ledcombe, and her now seemingly disintegrated life, with past inadequacies and future emptiness," while the husband "is haunted by certain places (the Isle of wight where he was brought up, the West of Scotland which has become a paradise of escape) as he is by a sense of guilt and failure, by the frustrations of his love both for the Army as it used to be and for Christina as she might have been, an...
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Category: Fiction (hardcover)