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1)	AUNTIE MAYHEM: A Bed-And-Breakfast Mystery Daheim, Mary
	NY: Avon (©1996).. Stated First Printing. Uncorrected Proof. mass market paperback. Fine. Candy Is Dandy...But Poison Is Murder". [B] 268 pages.. ... more information Offered by Canterbury Books (Quebec, Canada) +/-	Price: $4.50

2)	QUEEN OF DESIRE: A Novel Toperoff, Sam
	This fictional biography tells the sad story of Marilyn Monroe. NY: HarperCollins (©1992).. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).. Softcover. Fine. A Fictional Portrait of Marilyn Monroe That Finally Releases the Woman From the Legend." 276 pages; 23cm.. ... more information Offered by Canterbury Books (Quebec, Canada) +/-	Price: $5.00

3)	I BEEN IN SORROW'S KITCHEN AND LICKED OUT ALL THE POTS Straight, Susan
	Marietta Cook is different from the other Gullah-speaking women among whom she lives. Choosing isolation, she focuses on rais... read more NY: Hyperion (©1992).. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).. Softcover. Fine. 326 pages; 23cm.. ... more information Offered by Canterbury Books (Quebec, Canada) +/-	Price: $5.00

4)	BIG DREAMS: into the heart of California Barich, Bill
	NY: Pantheon (©1994).. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).. Softcover. Marjorie Anderson (cover art).. VERY GOOD PLUS (tips slightly creased). 547 pages; 24cm.. ... more information Offered by Canterbury Books (Quebec, Canada) +/-	Price: $5.00

5)	ZOO THAT NEVER WAS Lawrence, R.D
	NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (©1981).. Stated First Edition, first printing.. Cloth-backed hardcover. Bill Elliott (jacket & title-page art).. Book NEAR FINE. Illustrated dustjacket VERY GOOD (a few small chips & short tears at spine head and folds; light soiling). [C] 308 pages: black/white photos; 22cm.. ... more information Offered by Canterbury Books (Quebec, Canada) +/-	Price: $6.00

6)	THE WRITING TRADE: A Year in the Life Jerome, John
	Viking, 1992.. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).. Red wraps, black titles. VERY GOOD PLUS or better (spine very slightly darkened; bottom outer corner lifting slightly). 234 pages; 21cm.. ... more information Offered by Canterbury Books (Quebec, Canada) +/-	Price: $7.00

7)	RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY. Volume LVII [57], Number 4, Winter 2004 Smith, Jeffrey Chipps (editor)
	NY: The Renaissance Society of America, (©2004). Printed wraps (softcover). Very Good Plus (clean, tight, uncreased and likely unread; faint stain rear cover). Studies: "The Renaissance Fascination with Error: Mannerism and Early Modern Poetry" by F. Rigolot; "David, Bathsheba, and the Penitential Psalms" by C.L. Costley; "The Mimesis of Marriage" by R. Leushuis; "Finding a Job as a Humanist" by E.M. McCahill. Vol. 57, No. 4, (p1219-1626): illustrated; 24cm. In... more information Offered by Canterbury Books (Quebec, Canada) +/-	Price: $7.50

8)	THE SKEENA: River of Destiny. (B.C. Centennial Project of the Prince Rupert Committee) Large, R. Geddes
	Vancouver: Mitchell Press (©1957).. No additional printings.. Blue cloth hardcover. Very Good Plus/Near Good. 180 pages: endpaper maps, frontis + 28 black/white photos on coated paper hors-texte; 23cm. Bibliography, Index. Book VERY GOOD PLUS (spine ends & tips slightly frayed otherwise clean, bright & tight). Illustrated dustjacket (based on a painting by Dr. R.B. Smith) NEAR GOOD (1/2" chips + 1" x 5" long piece missing from bottom edge at spine foot & front & rear pa... more information Offered by Canterbury Books (Quebec, Canada) +/-	Price: $8.00

9)	A FINE DARK LINE. [Advance Reading Copy] Lansdale, Joe R
	NY: Mysterious Press / Warner Books, (©2003). Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Very Good (slight wear, clean & sound). Thirteen year old Stanley Mitchel becomes obsessed with some old love letters he finds and with the help of Buster, a retired Indian Reservation policeman, they not only unravel the mystery but plunge straight into danger. 307p: 23cm. 445g. [C] ... more information Offered by Canterbury Books (Quebec, Canada) +/-	Price: $9.50

10)	CANADIAN NUMISMATIC JOURNAL. Volume 6, Nos. 1-6 Canadian Numismatic Association, (A. Petrie, ed)
	Willowdale: C.N.A., Jan-July/Aug 1961.. Wraps (softcover). Fine. 6 of 11 issues, (360 pages): illustrated; 23cm. Lacks index. Articles include "Coins of Canada" & "Coins of Lower Canada" by R.C. Willey. ... more information Offered by Canterbury Books (Quebec, Canada) +/-	Price: $10.00

11)	FRESHWATER AQUARIUM: A Complete Guide for the Home Aquarist O'Connell, R.F.O
	St. Petersburg: Great Outdoors Publishing (©1971). . First American Edition.. Green cloth hardcover, gilt. Bryon Harvey, Alan Cupit (colour photos). . Complete guide to Aquarium Care and all aspects of fishkeeping for beginners and experts, including, Aquariums and Equipment, Plants, Management, Diseases, Feeding, classification, Breeding, Freshwater Tropical Fishes Descriptions and The Microscope. 256 pages: 60 colour plates in-texte, line drawings; 24cm. Appendix, Index. Book NEAR FINE (clean, brigh... more information Offered by Canterbury Books (Quebec, Canada) +/-	Price: $10.00

12)

A NEWBERY ZOO

Greenberg, Martin H. & Charles G. Waugh (selected by)

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Twelve stories about animals all written by authors who have won the Newbery Medal. Contributors include Lloyd Alexander, Be... read more

NY: Delacorte. For pre-publication in April 1995. . Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).. Illustrated softcover. Fine. Uncorrected galley proof. "Fourteen animal stories by Newbery Award winning authors." 143 pages; 26cm.. ... more information

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13)	STORY BOOK OF WHEELS Petersham, Maud and Miska
	Chicago/Philadelphia/Toronto: John C. Winston Company, (©1935). First Edition (nap). Orange hardcover with colour paste-down illustration. Very Good Plus (binding is colourful & bright, minor wear & soiling; interior has a few smudges otherwise Near Fine). The Petershams.. Chronology of the history of transportation and industry, from rollers and chariots to propellers and wind power. Unpaginated [32p]: yellow endpapers, title-page illustrated, blue/black and colour illustrations in-texte; 21... more information Offered by Canterbury Books (Quebec, Canada) +/-	Price: $12.00

14)	GUIDE TO THE MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN THE ILLINOIS STATE MUSEUM Crook, A.R
	Springfield: University Chicago Press, 1920. First Edition. Blue cloth hardcover, gilt. Very Good minimal ex-library (no pocket, spine faded, gilt slightly rubbed, otherwise clean & sound). The second guidebook published by the Illinois State Museum, this one useful for the student of mineralogy as well as the visitor to the museum. A description of Class I (Elements) and Classes II - XIV Minerals (Sulphides - Hydrocarbons) to "present to the reader a good idea of the science of mineralogy."... more information Offered by Canterbury Books (Quebec, Canada) +/-	Price: $12.00

15)	MISADVENTURES OF RUFUS BURDY, The Bird, Will R
	Toronto/NY: McGraw-Hill Ryerson (©1975). . First Edition, first printing.. Brown cloth hardcover, gilt. Roy Condy (jacket & title-page drawings).. Real down-home humour - a highly entertaining collection of rural sketches". Book FINE. Illustrated tan/brown dustjacket VERY GOOD PLUS (light shelf soiling, two tiny tears). [C] 270 pages: illustrated title-page; 22cm.. ... more information Offered by Canterbury Books (Quebec, Canada) +/-	Price: $12.50

16)	ROMANCE OF THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY MacBeth, R.G
	Toronto: Ryerson (©1924). . First Edition. Blue cloth hardcover, gilt. Near Very Good. The laying of the iron rails from ocean to ocean and how the railroad binded a nation. 363 pages: frontis with tissue + 5 pages of photos; 22cm. NEAR VERY GOOD (light wear, interior clean & sound but for rear hinge beginning to crack). No dj. [C] 363p: ill.; 22cm.. ... more information Offered by Canterbury Books (Quebec, Canada) +/-	Price: $15.00

17)	EMBRITTLEMENT OF METALS: A Series of Four Educational Lectures Queneau, B.R
	Cleveland: American Society for Metals (©1956). . Red hardcover, gilt titles. Very Good. A series of four educational lectures on the embrittlement of metals presented to members of the American Society for Metals at the Thirty-Seventh National Metal Congress and Exposition, Philadelphia, October 15 to 21, 1955". 90 pages: charts, tables, graphs, plates; 23cm. Bibliography, Index. VERY GOOD ex-library (spine marks, bookplate, stamps, rear pocket removed; otherwise sound). No dj. C. 90p: ill.; ... more information Offered by Canterbury Books (Quebec, Canada) +/-	Price: $15.00

18)	FILE ON ARTHUR MOSS, The Fetherling, Douglas
	Toronto: Lester (©1994).. Advance Proof.. White & black softcover. NEAR FINE (tips slightly creased). "A Kafkaesque fantasy of the soul of Canada under attack by American infodrones ... a kind of neo-Orwellian thriller." 210 pages; 18cm.. ... more information Offered by Canterbury Books (Quebec, Canada) +/-	Price: $18.00

19)	J.M.W. TURNER, R.A: Volume III of Famous Water-Colour Painters series Sandilands, G.S. (introduction)
	London: The Studio, 1928.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Good Plus. Reddish-brown paper-covered boards with off-white paste-down, title decorated and lettered in black, uniform with three other volumes in the series ( Frank Brangwyn, W.Russel Flint, & R.P.Bonington). Six page introductory text by British art critic George Somerville Sandilands (1889-1961), followed by eight 16 x 23cm colour reproductions tipped-in, with titled tissues, on sewn signatures; 30cm. Binding GOOD or better (spine lightly fade... more information Offered by Canterbury Books (Quebec, Canada) +/-	Price: $20.00

20)	RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY. Volume LVIII [58], Numbers 1-4, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter 2005 Smith, Jeffrey Chipps
	NY: The Renaissance Society of America, (©2005). Printed wraps (softcover). Very Good Plus (clean & sound, minor wear). Some of the studies include, "Visualizing Imperium" by C.R. Phillips; Abridging the Antiquitee of Faery lond" by C. Wheatley; "A Spectacular Celebration of the Assumption in Siena" by A. Campbell; "Spenser, Homer, and the Mythography of Strife" by J. Wolfe; "The Role of Letters in Biographies of Michelangelo" by D. Parker; 'Wheref... more information Offered by Canterbury Books (Quebec, Canada) +/-	Price: $25.00