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Adams, Douglas The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy London, United Kingdom Pan Books Limited 1983 0330258648 / 9780330258647 Twenty-fourth Printing Mass Market Paperback Fine No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK "Based on the famous radio series. Chronicles the off-beat and occasionally extraterrestrial journeys, notions, and acquaintences of galactic traveler Arthur Dent." Price:
6.75 CAD
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Arscott, David; Marl, David Frozen City London, United Kingdom George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1984 0048232580 / 9780048232588 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Steve Weston FIRST EDITION Export edition precedes New York edition no price on flap. Fine blue cloth. Silver titles. Fine blue pictorial DJ. 231pp. Price:
13.49 CAD
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Barrie, James M[atthew] Auld Licht Idylls New York The Mershon Company Hard Cover Good No Jacket 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK "Using his mother's stories about the town (which he called 'Thrums') for a piece submitted to a paper in London. The editor 'liked that Scotch thing',[4] so Barrie wrote a series of them, which served as the basis for his first novels: Auld Licht Idylls (1888), A Window in Thrums (1890),[6] and The Little Minister (1891)." Wikipedia Good blue illustrated cloth. Gilt titles, some wear, tanning to pages, hinges starting, previous owner name and bookplate. n.d., 16mo, [vi], 250pp. Price:
11.95 CAD
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Bourjaily, Vance The End of My Life London W. H. Allen 1963 FIRST BRITISH EDITION Hard Cover Fine Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK Fine red cloth. Gilt titles. Good orange pictorial DJ. Some wear and tear, soiling, chipping to DJ. (1963), (1947), 8vo, [x], 278pp. Price:
29.95 CAD
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Buffa, D. W. The Defense New York, New York, U.S.A. Henry Holt & Co 1997 0805053077 / 9780805053074 First Edition First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall FIRST PRINTING # LINE TO 1. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK Fine gray quarter-cloth. Fine white color pictorial DJ. 1997, 8vo, (ix), 309pp Price:
12.49 CAD
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Clewes, Howard Sailor Comes Home New York W. W. Norton & Company 1939 First American Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall FIRST EDITION STATED AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK Very good blue cloth. Very good gray pictorial price-clipped DJ. Some wear and tear to DJ, soiling, previous owner name and stamp, missing blank ffep. (1939), 12mo, 248pp. Price:
13.49 CAD
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Clubb, John L. The Cabinet of Dreams New York Vantage Press 1966 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall David Gonella Signed by Author SIGNED BY AUTHOR AUTHOR BORN IN WINNIPEG CANADA Very good green cloth hardcover. Very good white green DJ. Some wear, soiling. (1966), 8vo, 62pp. Price:
19.95 CAD
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Cobb, Thomas Crazy Heart New York, New York, U.S.A. Bookthrift Co 1989 0060158034 / 9780060158033 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Near Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall "Can Bad Blake stop living the life of a country western song and tie a rope around his crazy heart?" Fine white cloth. Near fine white DJ. 248pp. Price:
9.49 CAD
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Connor, Ralph (Rev. Dr. Charles Gordon) Black Rock A Tale of the Selkirks Elgin, Illinois, USA David C. Cook Publishing Company Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall ILLUSTRATED Pseudonym of Reverend Dr. Charles Gordon of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK "Ralph Connor has gone into the heart of the Northwest Canadian Gordon was born in Glengarry County, Ontario, Mountains and has painted for us a picture of life in the lumber and mining-camps of surpassing merit." ST. LOUIS GLOBE DEMOCRAT Very good green half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt titles. Some edge wear, soiling. (n.d. Circa 1898), 8vo, 95pp. Price:
14.95 CAD
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Crozier, Blanche Smiley's Haven Boston Little, Brown & Company 1928 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall "There is only one word that adequately describes this first book by a woman who knows something less obvious but equally important things as well as she knows hurricanes. Smiley's Haven is delicious." E.M.R. Very good blue cloth. Light wear. (March 1928), 8vo, [4], 360pp. Publisher's device on title page. Price:
23.75 CAD
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Crumey, Andrew Music, in a Foreign Language New York, New York, U.S.A. Picador USA 1996 0312146884 / 9780312146887 First Picador USA Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall WINNER OF SCOTLAND'S SALTIRE PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL FIRST PRINTING # LINE TO 1. Fine black quarter-cloth over blue boards. Very good blue white DJ. Slight wear, soiling, black mark bottom edge. 243pp. Price:
9.49 CAD
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Curran, Terrie All Booked Up New York, New York, U.S.A. Dodd Mead 1987 0396092047 / 9780396092049 First Edition First Printing Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Ex-Library 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall FIRST EDITION STATED FIRST PRINTING # LINE TO 1. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. "When an extremely rare fifteenth-century book disappears from the shelves of the Smedley Library, along with all traces and records of the volume, and members of the staff become victims of murder, Basil Killingsley and his formidable wife Hortense take charge of the investigation." Very good grey burgundy hardcover. Very good black pictorial price-clipped DJ. Mylar cover. Some wear, usual ex-library markings, stamps, labels. 187pp. Price:
9.95 CAD
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Dinesen, Isak; Blixen, Karen Seven Gothic Tales New York Harrison Smith and Robert Haas 1934 First American Edition Hard Cover Very Good Poor 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall "These tales are a modern refinement of German romanticism." Introduction by Dorothy Canfield. Very good red half cloth over beige boards. Gilt titles and decoration. Red top edge. Only front of dust jacket and flap. Some wear, soiled. 8vo, x, 420pp. Price:
39.95 CAD
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Donald, J. M. Quebec Patchwork Toronto, Ontario, Canada The Macmillan Company 1940 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall J. M. Donald MAP ENDPAPERS ILLUSTRATED Very good beige cloth. Green titles. Slight wear, glue marks inside blank free endpaper 91940), 8vo, 368pp. Price:
11.95 CAD
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Dostoieffsky, Fedor (Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich) Poor Folk & The Gambler EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY # 711 London J. M. Dent & Sons Limited 1915 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall FIRST EDITION EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY # 711 Introduction by C. J. Hogarth. Translation by C. J. Hogarth. "Poor Folk was Dostoyevsky's first book; it consists of a series of love-letters between an impoverished man and woman living in the slums of St. Petersburg. The Gambler, a much later story, is set in fashionable spas and casinos of Europe; it has some autobiographical interest since Dostoyevsky had a fondness for gambling, and the imperious heroine Polina is said to be based on Suslova a young authoress for whom Dostoyevsky had an enduring passion." RG4 Very good red cloth. Gilt titles and decoration. Slight wear, fading to spine, previous owner name inside. [n.d. 1915], 12mo, xi, 307pp. Temple Press 1/1//U Seymour Price:
74.95 CAD
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Dueck, H[ilda] M. R[iediger] An Orphan's Song Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Windflower Communications 1993 189530816X / 9781895308167 First Edition Trade Paperback Fine No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK "The two-tier plot form, ie. alternating the time present story of Henry as an ailing old man in Canada with his boyhood story in Russia is a good idea." AL REIMER Fine white blue color pictorial trade paperback. (1993), 8vo, [ix], 304pp. Price:
11.99 CAD
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