Literature

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 62 pages. Undated. Circa late 1800s?. Loose leaves. Well-worn decorated green boards. Hinges gone.. Hard Cover. Reading Copy/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Prince Rupert, BC: Prince Rupert Writer's Group, 1992 78 pages. With contributions from: Barrie Abbott, Dan Branch, Mallory Burton, Gerry Deiter, Anna Fritch, Marylou Fritch, Grace Hols, Keanna Kawatski, Lea Tassie, Sheila Peters, Nancy Robertson, Jean Rysstad, George Stanley, Claudia Stewart and K. Wayne Wilson. An annual editorial project with special interest in north coast (British Columbia) material.. Stapled. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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USA: Saturday Review Co., 1936 24 pages. W.E. Woodward's "A New American History" is reviewed by Arthur M. Schlesinger. Noel Coward's "Tonight at Eight-Thirty" is reviewed by Frances Woodward. Frederic C. Howe's "Denmark - The Cooperative Way" is reviewed by Agnes Rothery; F.L. Lucas's "The Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal" is reviewed by Leonard Bacon. "The Story of Jack and Jill" (as it might be told by William Faulkner, P.G. Wodehouse, and Alexander Woollcott). Jane Whitney's "Elizabeth Fry" is reviewed by Henry Seidel Canby. The Bowling Green, by Christopher Morley. "The New Caravan" is reviewed by Gorham Munson. Unmarked. Average wear. Small white sticker on back cover. . First Edition. Stapled. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919 88 pages. Speakers include: Elihu Root, John Galsworthy, Stephen Leacock and many others. Tissue protected black and white frontis of subject. Gilt spine lettering. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding sound. Nice solid copy. . Hard Cover. Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Belgium: Oeuvre Saint-Charles De Grammont 260 pages. Text in French. Above-average wear. Binding has defects. Worthy reading copy. . Hard Cover. Reading Copy. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Janus Average wear. British Academy award winner - Best British Film. "Delightful and Rewarding" - The New York Times. Sit your family down and watch this movie. They will thank-you. Suffers early from over-acting by Charles Laughton (Mr. Hobson) but as the story develops you will be abundantly rewarded.. Good. more information

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London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1881 219 pages. A very attractive volume with exquisite gilt lettering and illustration upon brown cloth. All edges gilt. With frontis and illustrations. Presentation inscription upon chocolate coloured front endpaper dated 1882, else unmarked. Moderate wear overall. Dampstains to the corners of some pages and back endpaper.. Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Perennial/HarperCollins, 2002 329 pages. After an altercation with the director of Wildman for Geisha! - a movie based on ace reporter Billy Chaka's life - Chaka finds himself in Hokkaido on mandatory vacation... then the trouble begins. Above average wear. Moisture induced rippling to first several pages. Unmarked. . First Printing. Soft Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Philadelphia, PA: Gibbings & Company, Limited, 1901 From print run of 2000. Includes three plates. Large blank ex libris design upon inside of front board. Front hinge going. Moderately cocked. Boards are well worn but lovely gilt illustration upon front board is clearly visible. Gilt design and writing upon spine still clearly legible/visible. Moderate yellowing to pages.. Windsor Edition. Hard Cover. Fair+/No Jacket. Illus. by Franklin, John. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Sussex, U.K.: The Book Guild Limited, 1987 131 pages. "Crazy Ed" Cresset - eccentric, loner and volunteer fireman - is more than just the mild, stammering old Englishman who, for twenty years, has been accepted by the good people of Pratt's Landing, Vancouver Island as one of their own. Book clean, bright and unmarked. Light wear to attractive dust jacket. Excellent copy.. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: George Routledge and Sons 119 pages. Illustrated with thirteen pictures. Undated. Gift inscription upon front endpaper dated 1916. Very attractive in decorated blue cloth boards with lovely colour illustration pasted on front. Large ornate decorated gilt title upon front board and spine. Both hinges open. Very nice reading copy.. Hard Cover. Reading Copy/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Edmonton: Tree Frog Press, Limited, 1979 187 pages. Reprint of the 1942 edition. Illustrated boards. Ink stamp upon front free endpaper and at bottom of page 31 else clean and bright, tight and square. Light wear. Lovely copy. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Samuel Tinsley, 1875 258 pages plus 16 pages of advertisements. "What we have herein written has been conceived in a spirit of philosophic dispassionateness. Let, then, those who would criticize passionately remember this, and forbear. We address ourself to the masters of reason and to the intellectual man; and not to those who are the mere slaves of prejuduce. Let these stand aside, since with them we have no business." - from Author's Notice. One-inch openings at each end of spine. Above-average wear to decorated brown boards. Gilt lettering upon front board and spine. Relatively benign erasures to endpapers. Front hinge cracked. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Detroit, MI, U.S.A.: Wayne State University Press, 1986 255 pages plus black and white photo section. Author had a dream in 1943; "Star Children. the children with the Jewish star. They went past me, the star children that I had known and knew in the critical times in the city and in the theater which was their prison. the dead children and the living. I knew at that moment that I had to be their voice - that I had to speak out and say what they had felt and suffered." In these sixty-eight short stories, she is indeed their voice. Explores a new kind of realism in Holocasut literature. "Although there are many Holocaust books, this one is important and special." - Elie Wiesel. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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U.K.: T. Nelson and Sons, Ltd. 471 pages. Undated. Red boards well-worn. Contents unmarked and lightly yellowed. Binding loosening but intact. Decent working copy. . Hard Cover. Fair+/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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USA: Longman Publishing Group, 1997 2016 pages. Designed for courses in literature and composition that emphasize critical thinking. Minimal markings. Light wear. Nice copy of this large, weighty tome. . Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Hodder and Stoughton 168 pages. Undated. Unmarked. Some yellowing. Average wear. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Davis, CA: Abbey Road Press, 1985 61 pages. Very attractive volume with calligraphy upon textured beige card covers. Inscribed by author to well-known bookseller Thorah Howell of Nanaimo, British Columbia. Contents include Strait of Georgia, Travel, Journey to the Antipodes, Zampano and Gelsomina, and Endings. Author is a psychotherapist and educator. A married mother of two, she divides her time between private practice in Davis, California and Gabriola Island on the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, where she writes. Light soiling and wear to covers.. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Heinemann, 1973 246 pages. "Granny Brown, known as GB to her many friends and enemies, was tennant of one of the king-sized dust-bins constructed and filled with rubbish by the slum area behind Montego Bay, Jamaica. She was a stonebreaker by profession and by genius historian of all the scandalous gossip of the community". - from back cover. Underlining and/or marginalia interspersed throughout. Average wear. Binding intact. Solid copy. . Reprint. Soft Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1973 95 pages including biographical notes of author. Author spend four years in the forced labor camp at Vorkuta, in Siberia, as a political prisoner. He utilizes his experience for this novel. This is a poet's novel, every word needs to be there, every repetition and every variation on a sequence of words contribute to a closely knit pattern of thought. This book is best read aloud. No library markings to exterior of book. Several ink stamps inside. Back endpaper removed.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Keighley: John Overend, 1891 160 pages. Both hinges gone. Substantial staining to both boards. Portrait of author on front board. Small sticker inside back board reads "J S Wilson Bookseller Keighley." Gilt on spine still legible. Author was born on March 22nd 1836 at Hoyle House End near Hermit Hole on the road out of Keighley. Hence his writing name "Bill O'th' Hoylus End." In 1876 he produced a book of poems called "Random Rhymes and Rambles". The present volume is a revised edition of that work. Preface reads in part "The Author respectully submits to the general public of his native town and district, this volume of poems, containing some of the chief results of his musings for the past thirty years." Author also produced "History of O' Haworth Railway" which was first published in 1866.. Revised. Hard Cover. Poor/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Copenhagen: H. Hagerups Forlag 192 pages. Written in Danish. Spine missing. Heavily worn. Front hinge going. All pages appear to be present. Unmarked. Rough copy. . Hard Cover. Reading Copy/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Chicago: F. J. Schulte & Company, 1890 367 pages. "I paint a dreadful picture of the world-wreck which successful anarchism would produce." - from page 3. A remarkably prescient utopian science fiction novel. Bookplate of Stanley S. Zack inside front board. Unmarked. Textblock tight. Front hinge starting. Average wear to maroon cloth. Bright gilt lettering and decoration upon front board. Backstrip moderately sunned - its gilt lettering and decoration remain legible/visible. A quality copy of this important work. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1931 274 pages. Translated from the German. Usual library markings. Partially yellowed. Average wear. Binding aging but intact.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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New York: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Limited, 1980 219 pages. "T.C. Boyle is on his way out of the literary underground where he has been almost a legend." - Vance Bourjaily. Lightly yellowed. Unmarked. Light wear. . Reprint. Soft Cover. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Secker & Warburg, 1993 512 pages. Index. Select bibliography. "Takes bearings on a major century in British fictional writing, mapes out and defines the landscape of a form that retains its questing energy." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Binding intact. Usual library markings. A sound working copy. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Nanoose Bay, BC, Canada: Jack of Hearts 46 pages of poetry and prose. Small stain on fore-edge. Undated. Bright red glossy covers. "Now and again, there is the occasion to reach out with a passion that is genuine and to present to someone the little musics, the sure colours, the sense that one has grasped about life." - from the introduction. Author lives in Nanoose Bay, British Columbai with his wife and children.. Soft Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London, United Kingdom: Harvill Press (UK), The, 2000 185 pages. Intrigue, blackmail and murder - a dark satire from the great Italian humorist. Blind stamp and date upon half-title page else clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Excellent copy.. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1958 260 pages. Directed to the young writer contemplating the dramatic form for the first time. Some writing upon front endpaper. Minimal markings to contents with highlighting upon 3 pages. Binding secure. Moderate wear. Nice working copy. . Hard Cover. Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: The University of Chicago Press, 1987 259 pages including index. "In a complex world which many face with feelings of ambiguous and divided loyalties, the role of secrecy and intrique in fantasy has grown progressively more significant. This work shows how some writers, by understanding and exploiting the public's need for such fantasies, have created successful novels - and, sometimes, major works of art." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Usual library markings. . Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Thailand: AhnDai Books, 2003 292 page. "Brings new meaning to the pithy aside. His lazy, sardonic style and cavalier approach to literature bear the hallmarks of a truly flawed genius...' - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked. Negligible wear. Unread copy. . Soft Cover. Very Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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UK: Collins, 1975 256 pages. "Equals its predecessor (The Thousand and One Nights of Jean Macaque) in wit and suavity, and surpasses it in the galaxy of characterss it displays, all drawn from Paris which Cloete knows and loves so well and in which he himself grew up." - from dust jacket. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Spine leaning. Worthy reading copy. . Hard Cover. Fair/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Boston, MA: Estes and Lauriat, 1898 302 pages. Unknown edition. Black and white plates, including frontis. Nautically-oriented story of a young American born in Maine in 1757. Printed upon high quality paper. Attractively illustrated front board features gilt lettering with white and red illustration. Prior owner's label inside front board. Gift greetings upon back free endpaper. Moderate wear. Binding tight. Nice copy. . Hard Cover. Good. Illus. by Davis, J. Steeple. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1900 245 pages plus advertisements. A tale of the days of Saint Dunstan. Very handsome red exterior adorned with shiny silver and black decorations. Silver top edge. Prize inscription upon verso of front free endpaper else unmarked with moderate wear. Nice decorative copy. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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New York: Vantage Press, 1979 66 pages. Author's inscription to Eva on front flyleaf. Author's poetry is the embodiment of sincerity. She catches and records the sights and sounds of her beloved Victoria, British Columbia, as well as her "thoughts and feelings." Author was born and raised in England and served in the Air Ministry in the Second World War. She resides in Victoria on Vancouver Island, Canada.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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USA: Brownell & Carroll, 1996 406 pages. "Using 20 of the 33 movie titles to delivery the story of Valentino's abbreviated lifetime, Curnes has fashioned an all-terrain vehicle which travels freely throughout a bumpy homosexual history, taking on some 20-odd passengers who don't hesitate to impart their distinctive perspectives on an easily influenced and eager young prodigy... An engaging tale of two lives - one present and one present again." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked. Tight and square. Very light wear. Nice copy. . Signed. Soft Cover. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Canada: The Public Access Collective, 1990 171 pages. Clean and unmarked. Light wear. Nice copy. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Germany: Schillerbuchhandlung 336 pages. Undated. Text in German. Unmarked. Some yellowing to pages. Binding intact. Solid copy. . Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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New York: Collier/Macmillan, 1993 182 pages. Former owner's name atop front flyleaf. The story begins after a nuclear holocaust has destroyed all that is familiar, including humanity's faith in a benevolent God. Out of the ashes arises a mighty new religion based on fear and death - worship of the God of Wrath, the Deus Irae. "Philip K. Dick rivals Kurt Vonnegut." - New York Times Book Review.. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Toronto, Canada: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited, 1924 124 pages. Edited and with notes by J.F. Van Every. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Few markings to contents and covers. A worthy reading copy.. Stapled. Reading Copy. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: Bradbury and Evans, 1858 524 pages. Gift greetings and bookseller's impression upon front endpaper. Boards and spine separated from contents. Many defects.. Hard Cover. Reading Copy/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Boston, MA, U.S.A.: William Veazie, 1964 472 pages including index. Bookplate inside front cover. Former owner's signature upon and staining to front flyleaf. Front hinge going. Average wear overall.. Hard Cover. Fair+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Boston, MA, U.S.A.: William Veazie, 1964 445 pages. Back hinge well on its way. Veazie catalogue of the day affixed to front endpaper. Former owner's signature upon back side of frontis. Bookplate upon front endpaper.. Hard Cover. Fair+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Vancouver B.C.: Pulp Press, 1977 132 pages. Former owner's name and 'please return to' information on front flyleaf. Lots of wear and yellowing around the edges. Messy attempted erasure at top left of front cover. Author takes his values from the American Plains and converts them into the high moral currency of art. These are moral tales, the stuff of legend, as as such they belong to a tradition of storytelling which has very nearly evaporated - or so it seems - in our time.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Victoria BC: Tesseract/Porcepic Books, 1988 141 pages. Curling and soiling to covers. Some soiling to contents. Thirteen speculations on the human dimension of advancing technology, space exploration and cultural change, by a brilliant new voice in science fiction. "Dorsey gently exposes the passion and pain of 'whatware' survival/participation in the multiplex realities of the worlds in-/out-side our skins. The texture is silken tough." - Judith Merril. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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USA: Ardis, 1982 255 pages. Footnotes. Translated from the Russian. "Eikhenbaum's account of Tolstoi's life and writing in this period is the keystone to his trilogy on Tolstoi." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. . First English Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Winnipeg, MB: Christian Press, 1975 228 pages including glossary. Water stain to bottom of first 50 pages and front cover. Book is well worn but binding remains solid. An interesting an imaginative story. Recreates the life of early Mennonites who migrated to the Canadian prairies.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Fair to Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London, United Kingdom: Granta Books, 1998 686 pages. "A wonderful collection." - The Times. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Excellent copy.. Soft Cover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Portugal Cove, NF, Canada: Breakwater Books, Limited, 1976 239 pages. Only library marks are pocket inside front cover and runner stamp upon front flyleaf. Canada council rubber stamp upon second front flyleaf. The stories and poems in this book were chosen with no theme or thesis in mind, but simply as a representative sampling of the work of the best writers from the Maritimes and Newfoundland today. Average soiling and wear.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press 437 pages including glossary. No date. Circa early 1900s. Average wear. Unmarked. Olive boards. Slight lean to spine. Binding sound.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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