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TickleAce II. April 1978

By: N/A

Price: $28.60

Publisher: St. John's, Tickleace: 1978

Seller ID: Books006234

Binding: Saddle Stapled Card Covers

Condition: Very Good

40 pages. Illustrated. The second issue of this quarterly review. mild soiling to covers, else clean and unmarked.
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The Moral Legacy; or, Simple Narratives

By: N/A

Price: $1,237.50

Publisher: London, William Miller: 1801

Seller ID: Books010648

Binding: half leather

Condition: Very Good

xi, [i], 359, [1] pages. Errata printed on verso of p. 359. Uncommon novel published anonymously; a second edition was issued 1808. Cautionary tales, each in first person: The gamester; The passionate man; The passionate woman; The envious woman; The vain man; The libertine; The prodigal; The miser; The enthusiast; The adulteress. Spine professionally replaced to style with skiver leather, gilt ruled, with new label. Endpaper hinges mended. Two original free endpapers at front and at rear. Some toning to leaves, and foxing to title page, but overall very good. Binding is sound.
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WYE Magazine, Spring 1962

By: N/A

Price: $103.13

Publisher: Provo, Brigham Young University: 1962

Seller ID: Books010898

Binding: Saddle Stapled Card Covers

Condition: Very Good

48 pages. Profusely illustrated. Front cover creased; spine rubbed; staples rusted but holding fine. "Official magazine of the Associated Students of Brigham Young University."
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The Book of Tales; or, Sketches From Real Life : Being Pages From The Portfolio of a Chronicler [Real Life : pages from the portfolio of a chronicler]

By: N/A

Price: $501.88

Publisher: Edinburgh, V. H. Nelson: 1841

Seller ID: Books011170

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

vi, 326 pages; this copy lacking pp. iii, iv. Same paging and format as the Waugh and Innes 1832 issue under the title Real Life : Pages from the Portfolio of a Chronicler. This Nelson edition and title not recorded in OCLC [June 2018]. Good only, with head of spine chipped; front hinge split [attached by one cord only]; lacking first introductory leaf of text [pp.iii/iv]; Contents leaf detached, and pp. v/vi nearly so.
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Russian Grammar Simplified

By: N/A

Price: $171.88

Publisher: London, Hugo's Language System:

Seller ID: Books011177

Binding: half leather

Condition: Very Good

238 pages. No date of issue specified. "Special Notice To Students" bound in. Half leather over pebbled cloth, with marbled endpapers, in slipcase. Particularly well preserved. For overseas shipping options please inquire.
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Ecclesiastes

By: N/A

Price: $309.38

Publisher: Merrickville, ON, Greyweathers Press: 2017

Seller ID: Books012722

ISBN: 0889842914

Binding: Half Cloth

Condition: Very Good

80 pages. 100 copies issued, this is number 35 of the 80 regular letterpress edition. Inconspicuous dent to front panel.
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Johnsoniana or Supplement to Boswell : Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr Johnson

By: N/A

Price: $168.75

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1836

Seller ID: Books012905

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

xxii, [2], 530 pages, and 43 of 45 plates (lacking xxvi and xlv). Contemporary binding bordered in gilt; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Joints rubbed; some crazing to leather. Binding is sound; interior is unmarked. 8.5 x 5.5 inches
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The Last Lunar Baedeker, Mina Loy

By: (Loy, Mina) edited and introduced by Roger Conover

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Manchester, Carcanet Press: 1985

Seller ID: Books012642

ISBN: 0856354589

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

lxxix, 334 pages. Unmarked; no spine crease.
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The Coquette; or, the History of Eliza Wharton

By: A Lady of Massachusetts [Hannah Webster Foster]

Price: $57.20

Publisher: Newburyport, Charles Whipple: 1824

Seller ID: Books004257

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

304pp. "A Novel : Founded on Fact". Covers worn, spine chipped at top, red ink mark to rear end paper, foxing, especially first 50 pages, insect holes to corner of first 4 pages.
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The Man From The West, or From The Chaparral to Wall Street

By: A Wall Street Man [David Law Proudfit]

Price: $178.75

Publisher: New York, J. S. Ogilvie: 1894

Seller ID: Books009456

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

246 pages. 7.5 x 5.25 inches. Ogilvie copyright 1894. Cover price 50 cents. "Great Scott!! I've been on Wall Street two hours, and I've lost Fifty Thousand Dollars." [front cover] Shallow chipping to extremities of covers and spine panel and splitting of covers at hinges: 2 inches from heel for upper and one inch for lower. Not bad at all though for this fragile piece, attributed to David Law Proudfit. Side-stapled binding of textblock sound. Union Pacific overland route ad to verso of front cover; North Western Line to rear verso; Baltimore & Ohio on rear cover.
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A Shakespearian Grammar. An Attempt to Illustrate Some of the Diffferences Between Elizabethan and Modern English

By: Abbott, E.A.

Price: $21.45

Publisher: New York, Dover Publications: 1966

Seller ID: Books005680

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

xxiv, 511pp. previous owner's name to ffep., notes on final blank page. This book is a facsimile reprint of the third, revised edition published by Macmillan and Company in 1870.
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On Board the "Rocket"

By: Adams, Robert C.

Price: $28.60

Publisher: London, Ward Loke, and Co.:

Seller ID: Books006241

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Poor

vii [2] 335 pages. Undated first UK edition. Green cloth with titles on gilt to front and spine. Wear to covers, spine rubbed, lacks front endpaper, Contents leaf detached but present, some internal foxing, inner hinge split at front and rear. Not pretty, but a servicable working copy. Illustrated.
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The Works of the Late Right Honourable Joseph Addison in Four Volumes. The Third Edition, with Compleat Index.

By: Addison, Joseph

Price: $398.25

Publisher: London, J. and R. Tonson: 1741

Seller ID: Books012899

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

xxv, [3], 525, [1], [4]; [4], 538, [12]; 579, [1], [11]; 555, [1], [11]. Complete in four volumes, with engraved fronispiece portrait by G. Vertue after G. Kneller, engraved dedication headpiece, and six medalion cuts in Volume I. Contemporary calf with minor cracking to joints; spine ends and corners chipped; old institutional rubberstamp to front free endpaper of each. 10 x 8 inches.
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The Sacrifice [signed]

By: Adele Wiseman

Price: $71.50

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillian: 1988

Seller ID: Books008853

ISBN: 0771592795

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

346 pages. Mass market paperback "First Macmillan Paperbacks edition 1988" stated, though somewhat misleading as Macmillan published the novel in Laurentian Library softcover 1968 with reprints through the 70s. Student's pencil scoring, two instances of light green highlighting, and a few notations including the perceptive "nikolai / Manya - hid them in the cellar" on verso of front cover. No markings after page 79. Signed without inscription by the author on the first leaf. Spine not creased, and despite the markings little sign of wear.
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Evenings at Home; or the Juvenile Budget Opened

By: Aiken; Dr. [John] and Mrs. Barbauld [Anna Laetitia Barbauld]

Price: $61.88

Publisher: London, &c., George Routledge and Sons:

Seller ID: Books011368

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

446 pages, followed by 10 pages of ads. Every Boy's Library series, with no printed date of issue. Not illustrated. Routledge ads to pastedown and free endpaper front and rear. Light soiling to publisher's decorative binding and textblock edges, foxing to endpapers, old signature to verso of ffep and to Contents leaf. Binding is sound.
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Strathalmond : A Scottish Saga of the Lothians

By: Aitken, Alex

Price: $28.60

Publisher: Kingston, ON, Canada, Highlander Publishing: 1999

Seller ID: Books005691

ISBN: 0968409407

Binding: Card coves

Condition: Very Good

434 pages. As new. Signed "Best Wishes / Alex Aitken" on half title.
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The Lady of the Camelias, Diane de Lys, and A True Grisette

By: Alexandre Dumas fils

Price: $107.25

Publisher: London, John Dicks Press:

Seller ID: Books006080

Binding: Paper wraps

Condition: Fair

103 pages. With six illustrations by Frederick Gilbert. A fragile sixpenny publication in original wraps. Front cover detached. Light staining from orange wraps to first and last few leaves. Generally holding well, though particularly tender at p. 64 facing one of the illustrations: there the two halves of the book are holding by only two threads. Important Dumas fils works; I do not know of what "A True Grisette" is a translation. Ads for Reynolds's Newspaper (recto of both covers: with emphasis on the Working Man / "The People") and for Brooke's Monkey Brand soap ["Won't ...
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Remembrance

By: Alistair MacLeod

Price: $103.13

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 2014

Seller ID: Books009856

ISBN: 0771054513

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

47 pages. As new: clean and unmarked; jacket not clipped. Full numberline: first M&S printing.
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Aftermath [with Bookmark for Aftermath]

By: Allen, James Lane

Price: $71.50

Publisher: New York and London, Harper & Brothers: 1899

Seller ID: Books009136

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

138 pages. Considerable foxing throughout. Binding is sound, with no inscriptions. Of particular interest is the laid-in "Bookmark for AFTERMATH by James Lane Allen" [6.5 x 4.4 inches unobtrusive foxing to image, moreso to blank verso] of which we have not seen another example.
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., with Critical Observations on his Works

By: Anderson, Robert

Price: $263.25

Publisher: Edinburgh, Printed for Doig & Stirling, et al.: 1815

Seller ID: Books012907

Binding: quarter leather

Condition: Very Good

vii, 639 pages. Rebound in quarter leather, paper over board, new endpapers. Contents complete with half title. Occasional light foxing/offsetting; pink hue to lower outer corner from page 427 not affecting text. Overall very good, in sound binding; no inscriptions. 8.4 x 5.5 inches.
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Category: Literature