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BABAYAGA.

By: Barlow, Toby.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2013

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27932

ISBN: 0374107874

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

383 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). "Paris, 1959" The City of Light is the center of the universe. Expats flock to exercise their loftiest ambitions and most libertine fantasies, and maybe dabble in a bit of Cold War spycraft along the way. Refugees from the East - a few babayagas among them - arrive to start their lives anew. The world's greatest city is as cosmopolitan and alive as it's ever been. Will is just another young American seeking his fortune in Paris - except that the ad agency that employs him is a front for the CIA. He's been in the city a few years now and is beginning to sense that...
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IRISHMEN ALL.

By: Birmingham, George A. (pseudonym of James Owen Hannay, 1865-1950.)

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: Edinburgh, T.N. Foulis: 1914

Edition: Reprint.

Seller ID: 23392

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

225 pp + publisher's advertisements, 8vo (8 1/2" H) - dark green cloth with gold lettering on spine and front board. Top edge gilt. Fore edges of textblock untrimmed. 12 colour plates from oil paintings by Jack B. Yeats, tipped on to gray stock and tissue-covered (collated). Chapter headings: The Higher Official; The Minor Official; The Policeman; The Squireen; The Politician; The Country Gentleman; The Farmer; The Publican; The Exile from Erin; The Parish Priest; The "Minister"; The Young Lady and Gentleman in Business. Previous owner's name/date on front pastedown, faint pencil erasure mar...
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THE DARK TWIN.

By: Campbell, Marion.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Turnstone: 1973

Edition: First British Edition

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 27831

ISBN: 0855000058

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

256 pp, 8 3/4" H. Inscribed on half title page: "To Suzanne / with best wishes from / Marion Campbell". "The old man knows death is near. He has travelled a long road since he was simply Drost, son of no man, the only child of Malda, the Middle Priestess. From the warmth of the consecrated Hearth he was taken with the King's son to undergo the cruel schooling of the priests of the New Way. From childhood his life had been ruled by his duty as the Dark Twin to share with the treacherous Ailill the onerous burden of kingship. He had been sustained by the wisdom of the Old Way during his tr...
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EDUCATION IN THE ATLANTIC PROVINCES. LECTURES DELIVERED UNDER THE QUANCE LECTURES IN CANADIAN EDUCATION.

By: Frecker, G. A. Foreword by W. P. Thompson.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, W.J. Gage: 1956

Seller ID: 27238

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

112 pp, 8vo (8" H). Publisher's reply card and business card laid in. Contents: Dr. G.A. Frecker: A Biographical Sketch; Lecture I: The Historical Background and Earlier Developments; Lecture II: Education for Our Times. Minor musty odor, fiant foxing marks on top of text block. Glassine dust jacket has minor edge wear/wrinkling, light browning on spine, tiny stain on front hinge.
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THE RIGANTE SERIES. FIRST 3 VOLUMES. 1. SWORD IN THE STORM. 2. MIDNIGHT FALCON. 3. RAVENHEART. 3 BOOKS IN TOTAL.

By: Gemmell, David A.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Corgi:

Seller ID: 30503

Binding: Mass Market Paperbacks

Condition: Very Good+

First three volumes of the 'Rigante' series - 7" H. 1. Sword in the Storm - 478 pp, 1999, ISBN 0552142565. "Deep in the green mountain lands of the Rigante lies the settlement of Three Streams, whose people worship the gods of Air and Water, and the spirits of the Earth. Among them lives a boy whose destiny is written in starlight. He in Connavar, the Demonblade, born in a storm that doomed his father. A man with the making of greatness will always have enemies and from the start of this epic chronicle it is prophesied that the Armies of Stone will one day cross the water - and that their com...
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JEWISH FOLKORE AND LEGEND.

By: Goldstein, David.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hamlyn: 1980

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27743

ISBN: 0600363651

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

176 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w illustrations. "Judaism, has flourished for millennia in a myriad of environments; each has contributed something to the Jewish tradition. Far from being a religion ossified in the world of the Bible; it has produced countless legends and stories, built up on Bible inspiration but reflecting the ideas of the cultures within which they emerged. (This book) explores the core of the Jewish faith by retelling the stories made up and told by Jews throughout the world. The author develops essential ideas of Judaism, including the creation of the universe, the history of ma...
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THE ART OF WORLDLY WISDOM.

By: Gracian, Baltasar. Adapted from the translation by Joseph Jacobs. Introduction by Willis Barnstone.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Shambhala: 2004

Seller ID: 30446

ISBN: 1590301412

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

185 pp, 7" H. Integral ribbon bookmark. "This perennially popular book of advice on how to achieve personal and professional success is valued for its timeless insights on how to make one's way in the world. Written in the seventeenth century by a Spanish Jesuit scholar, the teachings are strikingly modern in tone and address universal concerns such as friendship, morality, effective leadership, and how to manage one's emotions. (This book) is for anyone seeking to combine ethical behavior with worldly success." Minor wrinkle at bottom of spine. Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling at top/...
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KISS OF THE FUR QUEEN.

By: Highway, Tomson.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Doubleday Canada: 1998

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 18557

ISBN: 0385256523

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

310 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). The author's first novel. Two small Cree boys are torn from their family and placed in a Catholic residential school where their names are changed and they are forced to speak English only. As young men, they move to Winnipeg where they confront racism, but are always watched over by the 'Fur Queen', a beautiful young woman they saw in their childhood in a photograph and have taken as their guardian angel. "Native story-telling techniques with European narrative form to create an engaging, funny, passionate and triumphant novel about the experience of being a st...
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Image for BARDIC VOICES SERIES. FIRST FOUR BOOKS. 1. THE LARK AND THE WREN. 2. THE ROBIN & THE KESTREL. 2.5. A CAST OF CORBIES (BARDIC CHOICES). 3. THE EAGLE & THE NIGHTINGALES.

BARDIC VOICES SERIES. FIRST FOUR BOOKS. 1. THE LARK AND THE WREN. 2. THE ROBIN & THE KESTREL. 2.5. A CAST OF CORBIES (BARDIC CHOICES). 3. THE EAGLE & THE NIGHTINGALES.

By: Lackey, Mercedes (with Josepha Sherman on "A Cast of Corbies".)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Riverdale, NY, Baen:

Edition: First Printiings

Seller ID: 30502

Binding: Mass Market Paperbacks

Condition: Very Good

First four books of the 'Bardic Voices' series, 6 3/4" H. 1. The Lark and the Wren - 488 pp, 1992, ISBN 0671720996. "With the proper schooling young Rune would be one of the greatest bards her world has ever seen. Even if only she knows it. Unfortunately, the daughter of a tavern wench at the Hungry Bear, no matter how talented, doesn't get much in the way of formal training. One night, to back up a brag she probably wouldn't have made if she weren't so mad, she went up to play her fiddle for the Ghost of Skull Hill. Everyone knows that no one who has ever gone up Skull Hill at night has come...
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CANADA & THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1774-1783.

By: Lanctot, Gustave. Translated by Margaret M. Cameron.

Price: $19.95 USD

Publisher: George G. Harrap, London, 1967.:

Seller ID: 19281

321 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w plates. "The propagandists in the American Revolution were many, and the pattern of their interaction was complex. There were pressure groups in Canada, in the American colonies, and in Great Britain, each motivated by self-interest and self-faith. The British, the Americans, the French-Canadian priests and seigneurs, the French under Lafayette, and the French-Canadian habitant all tried to manipulate the others. The c h a r a c t e r s and factions of the Revolutionary drama appear and disappear intermittently on the scene as ...
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VOLODYMYR THE GREAT. A HISTORICAL DRAMA IN THREE ACTS.

By: Lassovsky-Kruk, Miroslawa. Translated by Anna Stepaniuk Trojan.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, 1988

Edition: Limited Edition

Inscription: Inscribed by translator.

Seller ID: 27134

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

95 pp, 11 1/4" H. No. 604 of the Millennium Edition, limited to 1000 Numbered Copies. Inscribed by Anna Stepaniuk Trojan and with her card laid in. Map endpapers, b&w illustrations. Bilingual text (Ukrainian/English). "An ancient kingdom - Kiev! - one thousand years ago - its Volodymyr the Great made a crucial choice between an animistic religion, whose belief could not conceive of a permanent resurrection, and a new faith which is still transforming our world..." From the English Preface. Minor wrinkle at top of spine. Dust jacket has light edge wear, several small chips and tears (som...
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MISSION TO CHINA: MATTEO RICCI AND THE JESUIT ENCOUNTER WITH THE EAST.

By: Laven, Mary.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 2011

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29299

ISBN: 0571225179

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

279 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w maps, colour plates. "In the sixteenth century, the vast and sophisticated empire of China lay almost entirely unknown to Western travellers. As global trade expanded, this land of reputedly boundless wealth, pale-faced women, and indecipherable tongues begn to feed the fantasies of European merchants and adventurers. The Catholic Church, meanwhile, saw in this great people millions of souls who would be damned unless the Christian message could be brought to them. Mary Laven tells the extraordinary story of the first Jesuit mission to China. Confronting enormous chal...
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WINNER TAKE ALL: THE TRANS-CANADA CANOE TRAIL.

By: Lavender, David.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill: 1977

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28410

ISBN: 0070366780

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

363 pp, 9 1/4" H. Map. One of 'The American Trails Series'. "Hundreds of white traders operated throughout the area for 300 years. They rubbed elbows with Jesuit priests, Indians, Scottish settlers, and English adversaries. Guided by Indians, they worked out canoe routes which eventually stretched nearly 4000 miles. They suffered portages and freeze-ups which today stagger the imagination. They lived on pemmican and wild rice, berries and fish, and risked losing their lives on every trip they made. Here are the stories of the epic fights between the Nor'west and the Hudson's Bay Company...
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FAIRY TALES OF CHINA. CONTAINING: THE DRAGON KING / THE SACRED RICE / THE CHESS PLAYERS / THE WANDERING STAR.

By: Lum, Peter.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Cassell: 1959

Seller ID: 30417

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Unpaginated, 8 1/8" H. Pictorial boards & endpapers. Illustrated throughout in full colour. Contains four tales: The Dragon King; The Sacred Rice; The Chess Players and The Wandering Star. Slight lean to spine, glossy film missing on parts of spine and hinges
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TRUE NEWFOUNDLANDERS: EARLY HOMES AND FAMILIES OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR.

By: McBurney, Margaret and Byers, Mary. Inscribed by both authors.

Price: $27.50 USD

Publisher: Erin, Ontario, Boston Mills Press: 1997

Edition: Second Printing.

Inscription: Inscribed by authors.

Seller ID: 22808

ISBN: 1550461990

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

240 pp, large 8vo (10" H). "(This book) is the compelling story of the people of Newfoundland and Labrador - the heroes and the scoundrels, the rich merchants, and the poor fishermen, politicians and priests - the people who built this fascinating and complex province." The authors use as their departure point the buildings that were at the centre of these people's lives - their homes, churches, courthouses and lighthouses. Well-illustrated with many b&w and colour photographs. Very light edgewear to boards, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light wrinkling at edges - ma...
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THE HIDDEN ENCYCLICAL OF PIUS XI.

By: Passelecq, Georges and Suchecky, Bernard. Translated by Steven Rendall. Introduction by Garry Wills.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace: 1997

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 24453

ISBN: 01510024444

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

319 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). "In June 1938, after his attempts at diplomacy with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy had failed, Pope Pius XI ordered an American Jesuit, Father John LaFarge, to compose an encyclical denouncing racism and anti-Semitism. The result was a draft called 'Humani Generis Unitas' (The Unity of the Human Race), which LaFarge produced with the help of two other priests. But after Pope Pius XI died early in 1939, his successor, Pius XII, stood by in silence as Nazi Germany began to carry out its Final Solution. The unpublished encyclical was buried in a secret archive, its ...
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THIS IS OUR PARISH. NEW EDITION. FAITH AND FREEDOM SERIES.

By: Sister M. Marguerite and Beebe, Catherine.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ginn & Company:

Edition: New edition

Seller ID: 27781

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

256 pp, 8 1/4" H. Published for the Catholic University of America in the 1950s/early 1960s, this is the second level basic reader to be used in Grade Two after the completion of the New Edition of 'These Are Our Neighbors', extending the pupil's vocabulary by 233 words. Join the Fay family, which includes children Rosemary, James and Michael, as they move to their new home; are welcomed at their new church and school; and learn about their parish, etc. Charming colour illustrations showing clothes, toys, schools, etc. of days-gone-by. A real nostalgia trip! Light browning to edges of te...
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BALLYKISSANGEL: BEHIND THE SCENES.

By: Tibballs, Geoff.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: London, Headline: 1997

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23775

ISBN: 0747221065

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

128 pp, large 8vo (9 7/8" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. "Rarely has a new drama series engendered such genuine affection, particularly for its characters. Especially tantalising is the relationship between young English Catholic priest Peter Clifford and feisty bar owner Assumpta Fitzgerald, but 'BallyK' is home to a wide variety of colourful individuals including roguish businessman Brian Quigley, his headstrong daughter Niamh and her pensive husband Ambrose Egan, the local Garda. The show's other star is of course its setting - the stunning Vale of Avoca in County Wicklow ...
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LATIN OR THE EMPIRE OF A SIGN: FROM THE SIXTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURIES.

By: Waquet, Francoise. Translated by John Howe.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Verso: 2001

Edition: First British Edition

Seller ID: 27301

ISBN: 1859846157

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

346 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H) "(This) enthralling history of Latin in the modern period describes the institutional setting in which it was adopted, transmitted, promoted, defended, attacked and eventually relegated to the secondary, specialist status it has today. Defended with extraordinary tenacity by the Catholic Church and the academic world against the rationalist criticisms that it was inaccessible to the great majority of people, and inconvenient and time-consuming for the rest, it became the 'European sign' par excellence, as well as denoting a wide range of other phenomena: sacredn...
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DRAGONLANCE. VILLAINS SERIES - 6 VOLUME SET. VOLUME I. BEFORE THE MASK. VOLUME II. THE BLACK WING. VOLUME III. EMPEROR OF ANSALON. VOLUME IV. HEDERICK THE THEOCRAT. VOLUME V. LORD TOEDE. VOLUME VI. THE DARK QUEEN.

By: Williams, Michael, Williams, Teri, Kirchoff, Mary, Niles, Douglas, Severson, Ellen Dodge, Grubb, Jeff.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: TSR, (Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, 1993/2nd, 1993/4th, 1993/1st, 1994/1st, 1994/1st, 1994/1st).:

Seller ID: 5959

Binding: Mass Market Paperbacks

Condition: Very Good+

312 pp, 314 pp, 308 pp, 310 pp, 313 pp, 313 pp - 6 volumes - 7" H "The Villains Series explores the corrupted origins of the malevolent minions of Takhisis, Queen of Darkness ." Interiors - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exteriors - minor/light edge wear/rubbing, tiny area of surface paper loss at top of spine of vol 5, a few tiny corner creases, spines are flat with very light creases on vol. 5. Overall, a very attractive set. VG+
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