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LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY: "THE ISLAND'S LADY OF STORIES".

By: (Montgomery, Lucy Maud - L.M.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Springfield, Prince Edward Island, Women's Institute: 1975

Edition: 4th Printing

Seller ID: 12347

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

20 pp, 7 1/4" H x 5 1/4" D. B&w photographs. A short biography of Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables and other children's classics. Includes three poems: "Twilight in Abegweit"; "In Lover's Lane"; and, "Off to the Fishing Ground", an essay entitled "Prince Edward Island", plus the words and music for "Island Hymn". Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very small # 69 written in pen at top corner of front cover, tiny stain and small light water stain on rear cover. Postage for this light i...
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THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY.

By: Atwood, Margaret.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Oxford University Press: 1968

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 18468

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good+

69 pp, 8 1/2" H. The author's second book. "Her poetry explores the real world and a haunting private universe. Both are seen by a young woman totally committed to the search for a viable human world, one capable of containing its opposites: of reconciling the individual's inner and outer worlds, the chaos and the longing for order, the isolation of lovers, the craving for life and the fact of death. The poems in this new collection are less subjective than Miss Atwood's earlier ones, and the range of themes is wider, but they contain the same tension and give the same impression of a ...
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RUDE RAMSAY AND THE ROARING RADISHES.

By: Atwood, Margaret.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Key Porter Kids: 2003

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27792

ISBN: 155263244X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Unpaginated (approx. 29 pages), 9 1/2" H. Errata slip laid in at front with explanation of errors and peel-off words to be inserted into the text (all present). Colour illustrations. "(B)est-selling author Margaret Atwood offers a delightfully ridiculous (alliterative) tale about the virtues of resisting restrictions. Rude Ramsay has reached the end of his rope! Sick of dining on rock-hard rice, rubbery ribs, wrinkled ravioli, and raw rhinoceros, Ramsay and Ralph the red-nosed rat resolve to leave their rectangular residence (and Ramsay's revolting relatives) on a quest for a refr...
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THE MARRIAGE BED.

By: Beresford-Howe, Constance.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1981, first edition.:

Seller ID: 20640

232 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0771595549 "Meet Anne Graham, mother of three-year-old Martha and one-year-old Hugh, young, attractive, heavily pregnant - and alone. Things have not worked out at all the way Anne intended. Her teenage plans of marrying a rich Older Man who would put her through university were thwarted when Max, the first suitable candidate to come along, married Anne's mother, Billie, instead. Then her promising academic career was cut sh o r t w h e n her first real romance led to an unexpected pregnancy and an early marriage. Finally, ...
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GIFTS OF THE YEAR AND OTHER POEMS.

By: Bevan, Molly.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan Company of Canada: 1927

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22294

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good reading copy only.

67 pp, 7 3/4" H - black cloth with title blocks pasted on spine and front board. B&w frontispiece photograph of author. A collection of poems by a Canadian author, including: Canoeing at Dusk; Autumn Fires; Thanksgiving in the Country; Armistice; Alexander Graham Bell; Hepaticas; Christmas Greetings; Ghost Ships; A Camper's Song; St. Patrick's Day; Sing a Song of Firelight; House o' Dreams; November Nights, etc. Very light browning to pages, light browning on front endpapers, book cracked at pages 40/41, moderate browning to edges of textblock, slight bump and light wear at corners of bo...
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FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT.

By: Blondal, Patricia.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart: 1963

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23394

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

180 pp, 8vo (8" H). Second (and last) novel by this Canadian author who died before either of her books was published. "Set in the deceptively gracious atmosphere of British Columbia's West Coast climate and society, (it) is a story of complicated human relations, yet fast-paced and taut with drama and suspense. A strange marriage settlement that provides for the care of her son takes a penniless young widow, Arden Calcott, from a dreary London office to a life of luxury in the Vancouver Island home of her new husband, Dr. Alex Lamond. But it is a life of curious unease. Undercurrents...
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THE WINDS OF FORTUNE.

By: Britton, Helen E.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Hamilton, Primavera Press: 1972

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 29208

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

359 pp, 9" H. Inscribed on title page: "Best Wishes / Helen E. Britton". "Set in Eastern Ontario, the story has a prologue set in the atmosphere of a village at a time just before the First World War and opens in a town, Rossac, on the St. Lawrence River, following the interlinking lives of characters from the end of the Second World War through the 1950s and into the 'new morality' of the late 1960s and the present decade (1970s). Idyllic love stories, loneliness, the machinations of frustrated passions, the violence and tragedies of a sex-drug culture, all enter into the s...
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DOORS HELD AJAR.

By: Brown, Isobel; Krachun, Peggy Smith; Strowbridge, Nellie P. Helen Fogwill Porter and Bernice Morgan, compilers.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: St. John's, Newfoundland, Killick Press: 1997

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 1447

ISBN: 1895387760

Binding: Soft Cover with Self Flaps

Condition: Very Good+

182 pp, 8 3/8" H. "(This book) reflects not only the distinctive narrative voices of its authors, but also the diverse life-experiences of these three women: growing up in Glasgow between the wars, growing up in a small Newfoundland outport, growing up within the constraints of a fundamentalist religion, coming to this country after World War Two as the bride of a Newfoundland serviceman, leaving Newfoundland as the bride of an American serviceman in the 1960s. All this, and more, informs the short stories and essays contained in this book." Contents: Isobel Brown (November Memo...
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DOORS HELD AJAR.

By: Brown, Isobel; Krachun, Peggy Smith; Strowbridge, Nellie P. Helen Fogwill Porter and Bernice Morgan, compilers.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: St. John's, Newfoundland, Killick Press: 1997

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30527

ISBN: 1895387760

Binding: Soft Cover with Self Flaps

Condition: Very Good

OX BELLS & FIREFLIES: A MEMOIR.

By: Buckler, Ernest.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1968

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 17212

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

302 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). B&w illustrations. "Oxen were still yoked to sledges and the scythe and the ax and the crosscut saw were common everyday tools when Ernest Buckler grew up on a Nova Scotia farm at the edge of the wilderness. (This book) recalls those days. With sudden stabbing immediacy it brings the reader a bird sound, an odor, acrid or delicious, a remembered vagary of wind or sun, the timbre of a voice, or the true look of the men and women who peopled the Nova Scotia of Mr. Buckler's boyhood. It brings back as well the whole texture of a life that now exists only in ou...
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OX BELLS & FIREFLIES: A MEMOIR.

By: Buckler, Ernest.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1968

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28295

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

THE ONE I KNEW THE BEST OF ALL. (A MEMORY OF THE MIND OF A CHILD.)

By: Burnett, F.H., Mrs. (Frances Hodgson Burnett.)

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne:

Seller ID: 30552

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

292 pp, 8" H. Brick-coloured boards with gilt & black lettering, color illustration on spine, black lettering, black and color illustrations on front board. Yellow 'crackle' patterned endpapers, b&w illustrations. Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924), author of 'Little Lord Fauntleroy', 'Sara Crewe', 'A Little Princess' and 'The Secret Garden', here recounts the story of her youth. Calling herself the 'Small Person', she describes her early life in Victorian era England, her family's journey to their new home in the United States in 1865, and concludes with the acceptance for publication o...
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DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP. ILLUSTRATED EDITION.

By: Cather, Willa.

Price: $155.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1929

Edition: First Illustrated Trade Edition.

Seller ID: 19885

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

343 pp, 8vo (9" H) - medium brown cloth with dark brown lettering on spine and front board, illustration of a pot on front board. Pictorial endpapers, b&w illustrations. The first illustrated trade edition. Set in New Mexico in the second half of the 19th century, this is a story of the interaction between the respresentatives of the Catholic Church and the local and native people. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, a few pages slightly roughly opened at bottom edge - mainly at front of book and at page 331, a few pages at rear of book not opened, moderate browning to edges of...
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A LOST LADY.

By: Cather, Willa. Introduction by J.B. Priestley.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London, 1961.:

Seller ID: 20327

174 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "....the story of Marian Forrester as seen largely through the eyes of Niel Herbert. Mrs. Forrester's tragedy is that of a decline from the society of her equals - her husband and the other members of the Nebraska Railroad aristocracy - to the society of Ivy Peters, a vigorous village rough. Niel Herbert, who at first idolized Mrs. Forrester and was more than a little in love with her, at last came to see her without illusion: experie nce and travel had gradually brought him understanding of the changes both in Mrs. Forrester ...
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MILLAY IN GREENWICH VILLAGE.

By: Cheney, Anne.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: University of Alabama Press, Alabama, 1975.:

Seller ID: 20234

160 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0817371613 B&w illustrations. "It was Millay who captured in verse the freedom, spontaneity, quick wit, and beauty of the pre-1920s as no other poet did. She was a living symbol of the 'new woman' who could live, think, and love as freely as they chose. (This) is a psychological portrait of Millay in her finest years, the ones after she had freed herself of the repression of her childhood and youth and before she accepted th e b o n d s o f a stifling marriage. The four most important influences on Millay's life and art - ...
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A HISTORY OF FRENCH MILITARY AVIATION.

By: Christienne, Charles and Lissarague, Pierre. Translated by Francis Kianka.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press: 1986

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 25003

ISBN: 874743109

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

531 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H). B&w photographs, graphs, etc., colour plates. "(T)he first book to cover the entire history of military aviation in France. The authors spent several years examining the public archives of the Musee de l'Air, the Service Historique de l'Armee de l'Air, and the French National Assembly, among others. The result is a complete overview of French military aviation from the Fleurus balloon of 1794 to the modern Mirage 2000 jet fighter. Focusing on the main points of each topic, (they) serve a wide general audience while at the same time providing accurate and essent...
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ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. MORE THAN 5,000 ENTRIES AND OVER 1,100 PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE MOST FAMOUS MEN AND WOMEN OF ALL TIME.

By: Clark, John, editor.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Chancellor: 1994

Seller ID: 24329

ISBN: 1851527273

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

512 pp, 8vo (8 7/8" H). "Vivid documentation will introduce you to pioneers in the world of science and technology such as Hippocrates, Galileo and Albert Einstein. Legendary sports personalities like Jesse Owens, Mickey Mantle and Jack Nicklaus are chronicled as are the magnificent artists Michelangelo, Rembrandt and Georgia O'Keeffe. Varied, yet timeless writers and poets are included, from Sappho and Aesop to Dante, Shakespeare, and William Carlos Williams. The collection of politicians and statesmen run the gamut from Alexander the Great to John F. Kennedy. Great philosophers from...
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A LOVER MORE CONDOLING.

By: Clarkson, Adrienne.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1968, first edition.:

Seller ID: 18631

158 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. First novel by Ms Clarkson who went on to be a popular Canadian Governor-General. "The problem Sara Rainer has refused to face all her life is that other people maintain she has a problem. Her hu sband died many years ago during the Normandy invasion, and her friends reason it's high time she either married again or, now that she's holidaying in France, took a lover. Poor widow! Her friend Diane, for instance, knows all the ropes a n d w a n t s to help. So does her sister Anne. As for the males, Raoul is out of the question. ...
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THE THEBAN MYSTERIES.

By: Cross, Amanda. (pseudonym of Carolyn Gold Heilbrun.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz: 1972

Edition: First British Edition

Seller ID: 29305

ISBN: 0575013745

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

173 pp, 8" H. "Once again our detective is the charming and erudite Kate Fansler, professor of English Literature at an American university, aided by the New York assistant district attorney, Reed Amheart, who she has recently married. In an emergency she agrees to take on a senior seminar on 'Antigone' at her old school, the Theban. The central situation of the play, Antigone's determination to give token burial to her brother, in defiance of King Creon's edict, provides a challenge to which the girls at the Theban respond eagerly - a heroine defying to the death the tyranny of the...
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OCCUPATIONAL COSTUME IN ENGLAND FROM THE ELEVENTH CENTURY TO 1914.

By: Cunnington, Phillis and Lucas, Catherine. With Alan Mansfield.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: London, Adam & Charles Black: 1967

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30571

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

427 pp, 9 1/2" H. Profusely illustrated in b&w with drawings, reproductions and photographs. "(This book) fills a wide gap in the history of costume, since former books on the subject have concentrated on the fashions of the more leisured classes (a minority) rather than on the clothes worn by people at work. The occupations covered include those of outdoor manual worker, tradesmen, craftsmen, miners, seamen, public and domestic servants. In describing working clothes, the authors show that they gradually evolved from a comparative uniformity in medieval times to a later rich variety ...
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Keyword: Women authors